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	Brian Ferneyhough Biography
		Ferneyhough was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1968 and moved to Europe to study with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam, and later with Klaus Huber in Basel.
		Ferneyhough became closely associated with the so-called "New Complexity" school of composition, characterised by its extension of the modernist tendency towards formalisation (particularly as in integral serialism).
		Ferneyhough's actual compositional approach, however, rejects serialism and other "generative" methods of composing; he prefers instead to use systems only to create material and formal constraints, while their realisation appears to be more spontaneous.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Ferneyhough_Brian.html (370 words)

	Brian Ferneyhough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferneyhough was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1968 and moved to Europe to study with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam, and later with Klaus Huber in Basel.
		Ferneyhough became closely associated with the so-called New Complexity school of composition, characterised by its extension of the modernist tendency towards formalisation (particularly as in integral serialism).
		Ferneyhough's actual compositional approach, however, rejects serialism and other "generative" methods of composing; he prefers instead to use systems only to create material and formal constraints, while their realisation appears to be more spontaneous.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brian_Ferneyhough (532 words)

	The Music of Brian Ferneyhough: Works for Ensemble
		Brian Ferneyhough is known as the progenitor of the much maligned British "new complexity" school of contemporary music.
		Ferneyhough, with his beard and electrostatic long hair, seemed a jovial and rather benign figure, at least at this concert.
		People who are very familiar with Ferneyhough scores say he gleefully sets up technical conditions in which it is truly impossible for the performer to play what is written on the page: for instance two different and simultaneously opposing technical demands on a given instrument.
	www.newmusicon.org /v11n1/v111pehrson.html (851 words)

	University of North Texas News Service - Composer Brian Ferneyhough takes up residence at UNT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ferneyhough's lecture schedule includes master classes and meetings with individual students, but is highlighted with a lecture Feb. 24 and a panel discussion with McNutt and Wettstein Feb. 26, both at 11 a.m.
		Brian Ferneyhough Brian Ferneyhough was born in Coventry, England on January 16, 1943.
		Ferneyhough has also been the recipient of a Heinrich Strobel Foundation bursary from South West German Radio (1973), a German Academic Exchange award for 1976â€“77, the Koussevitsky award for Transit which was judged to be the best contemporary work recorded in 1978, and a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for On Stellar Magnitudes in 1995.
	web2.unt.edu /news/story.cfm?story=8533 (1060 words)

	Jacket 28 - October 2005 - Colin Browne reviews "Shadowtime"
		Ferneyhough, who was born in Coventry in 1943, is a prolific and celebrated composer of contemporary orchestral and chamber music.
		Ferneyhough’s collaborator, poet Charles Bernstein, was born in New York in 1950 and has an equally distinguished career as a poet, editor, scholar and teacher with at least twenty-two books of poetry to his credit as well as collections of essays, collaborations with artist Susan Bee and others, and ongoing editorial/ curatorial work.
		Ferneyhough’s sustained final chord seems to be suggestive of and open to the possibility of redemption as Benjamin imagined it, although not in the way Wagner imagined it.
	jacketmagazine.com /28/browne-shadow.html (5012 words)

	Brian Ferneyhough named Bonsall Professor in Music: 3/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brian Ferneyhough, the William H. Bonsall Professor in Music, came to the Department of Music in January from the University of California-San Diego.
		Ferneyhough's works range from music for string quartets to opera and computer music, and he has held some of the most prestigious visiting positions open to composers, including the Lehrstuhl für Poetik at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
		Composition students have praised Ferneyhough's ability to raise their works to higher levels and say that he is both accessible and generous with his time.
	stanford.edu /group/news/report/news/2000/march8/ferneyhough-38.html (162 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		There is something deeply extravagant about the hyper-complex music of Brian Ferneyhough: he is not the sort of composer who writes five notes when five hundred will do the same thing.
		Ferneyhough is famous for stuffing more music into his measures than musicians can play, and, for the audience, he stuffs his works with more sound than one can intelligently listen to.
		But Ferneyhough intrigues me nonetheless, and I�ll be there at the Lincoln Center Festival this summer for the premiere of his opera "Shadowtime." Meanwhile, though, I�m not sure how much Ferneyhough I�ll be listening to: a little goes a long, long way.
	www.sequenza21.com /2005/04/ferneyhough-at-miller-theater.html (664 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - Brian Ferneyhough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brian Ferneyhough was born in Coventry, England, in 1943.
		The Italian section of the ISCM at its 1972 competition gave Ferneyhough an honorable mention (second place) for Firecycle Beta and two years later a special prize for Time and Motion Study III which was considered the best work submitted in all categories.
		From 1973 to 1986 Ferneyhough taught composition at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/articles/ferneyhough_p1.html (2369 words)

	Brian Ferneyhough Solo Works: Discography: ELISION Ensemble
		Mr Ferneyhough, an English-born composer who has been teaching at the University of California, San Diego, for the last 12 years, is a modernist by any definition, except in his choice of media.
		Ferneyhough's creative impulse is a thoroughly Romantic one, and the quest for transcendence is one of the persisting concerns of all his music.
		In that period Ferneyhough deliberately made impossible demands on his interpreters, adding yet another layer of tension to music that was already highly wrought; on this disc the members of the Australian group Elision make sure that dramatic tension never slackens.
	www.elision.org.au /discs/ferneyhough.html (1006 words)

	Brian FERNEYHOUGH: Composers: ELISION Ensemble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brian Ferneyhough was born in Conventry, England in 1943.
		Ferneyhough has given lectures and classes at the Darmstadt Ferienkurze für neue Musik since 1976, and has been Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego since 1987.
		Ferneyhough was also the recipient of the 1996 Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the chamber-scale composition category, for
	www.elision.org.au /composers/ferneyhough.html (167 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Brian Ferneyhough was born in Coventry, England on 16 January 1943.
		The Italian section of the ISCM at its 1972 competition gave Ferneyhough an honorable mention (second place) for Firecycle Beta and two years later a special prize for Time and Motion Study III which was considered the best work submitted in all categories.
		Ferneyhough has also been the recipient of a Heinrich Strobel Foundation bursary from South West German Radio (1973), a German Academic Exchange award for 1976-77 and the Koussevitsky award for Transit which was judged to be the best contemporary work recorded in 1978.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/ferneyhough.html (413 words)

	Jodie Ferneyhough: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Ferneyhough is the current President of the Canadian Music Publishers Association (CMPA), and also sits on the Board of SOCAN and the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA).
		Ferneyhough: Government needs to recognize that the creator of the copyright needs to be protected and that the regulation of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is of utmost importance.
		Ferneyhough: The biggest mistake I feel any artist, and this to me is never genre specific, is that they feel they are entitled to huge advances.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/ferneyhough_jodie_139604350.aspx (912 words)

	PopMatters \| Columns \| Chadwick Jenkins \| Variations on a Theme \| The Sounds of Now: Brian Ferneyhough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ferneyhough claimed that he arrived at the detailed specificity of his scores from an early desire to furnish performers with the same kind of quasi-conceptual/practical background knowledge that they might already have with other traditions.
		But for Ferneyhough, this insistence puts a quasi-theological (theological only in the necessarily compromised sense to which it is relegated for many thinkers such as Ferneyhough today; compromised but no less necessary for its compromised position, perhaps all the more necessary because of that position) demand in place for the performer.
		The adoption of past styles in Ferneyhough is not the negation of presence through the abstention of personal involvement but rather the transmutation of the past through the very palpable presence of the individual of the present moment.
	www.popmatters.com /columns/jenkins/060302.shtml (1938 words)

	British Music Information Centre
		Any celebration of Brian Ferneyhough’s music within the context of British music is confronted with an awkward paradox: one of Britain’s most famous composers, and now part of its senior generation (he turned 60 this year), his relationship with his homeland has been always been ambivalent.
		Ironically, it was the very strength of this anti-establishment thinking that led to Ferneyhough being christened, in the late 70s and early 80s, as the figurehead of a fresh compositional movement: ‘New Complexity’.
		Dillon is a composer whose music was once bracketed with Ferneyhough’s in its rhythmic intricacy and notational complexity, but the Arditti’s pairing of these two works reveals the differences between their musical approaches.
	www.bmic.co.uk /features/ferneyhough.asp (527 words)

	Belt up and hold tight \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Composer Brian Ferneyhough is an infamous figure in contemporary music, regarded with the sort of bafflement and fear once reserved for Berg and Schoenberg.
		Ferneyhough certainly had an unlikely upbringing for a dark prince of musical modernism.
		Ferneyhough himself has a more modest but no less definite assessment of his work: "There are two ways of reacting to a modernity in which everything, every musical and historical style, is simultaneously present.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,878956,00.html (1049 words)

	BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH: Shadowtime, An opera in seven acts, Nicholas Hodges (piano/speaker), Mats Scheidegger (guitar), Neue ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH: Shadowtime, An opera in seven acts, Nicholas Hodges (piano/speaker), Mats Scheidegger (guitar), Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, Nieuw Ensemble, Jurjen Hempel (conductor), ENO at the Coliseum, London, 9 July, 2005 (AO)
		Ferneyhough considers Benjamin one of the last true intellectuals in that he was able to live for the sake of ideas.
		Benjamin is dead, but what Ferneyhough is doing is creating an entirely original exploration in imagination, speculating on how Benjamin's ideas might evolve.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2005/Jul-Dec05/ferneyhough0907.htm (1641 words)

	Brian Ferneyhough - Ars Musica 2004
		Né à Coventry en 1943, Brian Ferneyhough entame son éducation musicale dans le contexte populaire des orchestres de fanfares (brass bands) avant de poursuivre un cursus plus traditionnel.
		Brian Ferneyhough est certes l'une des personnalités les plus énigmatiques de la musique d’aujourd’hui.
		Ferneyhough travaille actuellement sur un projet d’opéra, Shadowtime, basé sur la vie et l’œuvre du philosophe allemand Walter Benjamin.
	www.lamediatheque.be /travers_sons/ars04_ferneyhough.htm (220 words)

	Brian Ferneyhough
		Ferneyhough received his formal musical training at the Birmingham School of Music from 1961-63 and studied composition with Sir Lennox Berkeley at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1966-67.
		Ferneyhough taught composition at the Musikhochschule Freiburg/Breisgau from 1973-86 and regularly gave masterclasses at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan from 1984-87.
		Brian Ferneyhough, Brian Ferneyhuff, Bryan Ferneyhough, Bryan Ferneyhuff, Brian John Peter Ferneyhough, Brian J.P. Ferneyhough, B.J.P. Ferneyhough
	composers21.com /compdocs/ferneyhb.htm (500 words)

	Brian Ferneyhough: Fourth String Quartet; Kurze Schatten II; Trittico per g.s.; Terrain
		Brian Ferneyhough: Flurries; String Trio; In nomine a 3; Streichtrio; Incipits
		Comment: Brian Ferneyhough, adopted father of the 'new complexity' movement, is often written of as one of the most significant composers of our time.
		Stylistically, this quartet is largely similar to the two preceding quartets, though Ferneyhough has to some extent clarified his style, eliminating some excess detail without impairing expressivity.
	www.livewebshop.com /B0000AKO6P/Brian_Ferneyhough_Fourth_String_Quartet;_Kurze_Schatten_II;_Trittico_per_g_s_;_Terrain.html (578 words)

	Amazon.com: Brian Ferneyhough 2: Music: Rohan de Saram,Brian Ferneyhough,Stefano Scodanibbio,ASKO Ensemble,Arcadian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A fascinating dimension of Ferneyhough's creativity is his ongoing dialogue with the established genres of the past.
		Ferneyhough seems to coerce his materials here to transcend toward a largescale concert aria.
		This is a fine solo,with again Ferneyhough penchant for transcending the boundaries of the given genre.
	www.amazon.com /Brian-Ferneyhough-2-Rohan-Saram/dp/B000024DAM (969 words)

	Brian Ferneyhough (g. 1943) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brian Ferneyhough erhielt seine musikalische Ausbildung an der School of Music in Birmingham und an der Royal Academy of Music in London.
		Beim Gaudeamus-Wettbewerb für Komponisten in Holland 1968 erhielt er einen Preis für seine "Sonaten für Streichquartett" und erzielte denselben Erfolg 1969 und 1970 mit "Epicycle" und "Missa Brevis".
		Von 1973 bis 1986 erteilte Ferneyhough Kompositionsunterricht an der Musikhochschule Freiburg.
	www.karadar.it /Worterbuch/ferneyhough.html (276 words)

	Brian Ferneyhough: Flurries; String Trio; In nomine a 3; Streichtrio; Incipits \| Classical Music Online
		Brian Ferneyhough: Flurries; String Trio; In nomine a 3; Streichtrio; Incipits
		Ferneyhough's music speaks within a framework of traditional genre for the most part, It never strays too far from known venues as the String Quartet and the Chamber setting.
		His music still carries the torch of modernity's agendas some believe to either have fallen off the ends of the globe for its persisting "alienating" experiences (that it doesn't engage the predictable cash box vigorously)or to have that "heroic" dimension Adorno loved so much for its "aesthetic in exile" persists in...
	www.onlineclassical.com /ItemId/B0008GIW2E (179 words)

	Brian Ferneyhough: Flurries; String Trio; In nomine a 3; Streichtrio; Incipits
		Comment: Ferneyhough's music speaks within a framework of traditional genre for the most part, It never strays too far from known venues as the String Quartet and the Chamber setting.
		Likewise "Flurries" another interesting chamber setting after poet A/R Ammons,who had appealed to Ferneyhough's penchant for unstructured shapes is as fodder to be shaped into decipherable dodecaphonic materials within the work.And the exposed linearity is what excites Ferneyhough, for he has written the most interesting chamber music.
		The therapeutic and ethical dimension of Ammons poetry finds its way into the compositional process here.The work takes its time an elegant use of space beginning as a string duet,then the clarinet with piano punctuation, like a miniature cadenza.Microintervals as well,in the Clarinet tossed the works consitution off center skewed into Ammons therapeutic.
	www.livewebshop.com /B0008GIW2E/Brian_Ferneyhough_Flurries;_String_Trio;_In_nomine_a_3;_Streichtrio;_Incipits.html (365 words)

	Life and death. Tess Crebbin writes about 'Shadowtime', Brian Ferneyhough's first opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943) is one of the best-known composers of new music and he has friends in high places.
		Ruzicka commissioned the work for this year's Biennale because 'Ferneyhough is an incredible composer and the impact of his work is immense'
		Coventry-born Ferneyhough has the right pedigree for someone to make it big even in today's difficult times.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2004/06/shadowtime1.htm (272 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - Brian Ferneyhough - 14 December 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Ensemble Sospeso - Brian Ferneyhough - 14 December 2002
		Brian Ferneyhough, Christian Herzog writes, is "considered by some to be the world's greatest living composer;" and according to Francois Nicolas, "there is no composer of today more villified." But there is no question that Ferneyhough is regarded as one of the most significant composers of his generation and certainly the most controversial.
		Ferneyhough's On Stellar Magnitudes, rarely performed, is an astonishingly virtuosic work.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/20022003/ferneyhough.html (173 words)

	Ferneyhough Festival: Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brian Ferneyhough makes a welcome return to Durham to celebrate his 60th birthday.
		To mark this special event, the University of Durham is holding a three-day festival in his honour.
		The University of Durham is delighted to be the first institution worldwide to welcome Brian Ferneyhough on this auspicious occasion.
	www.dur.ac.uk /ferneyhough.fest (109 words)

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