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Tim
Brady - composer, electric
guitar
André Leroux
- saxophones / Philip
Hornsey - percussion
Lori
Freedman - clarinets
/ Pemi
Paull -
viola
Brigitte
Poulin & Pamela
Reimer - piano / keyboards
Morris
Apelbaum - sound engineer
Performer biographies

Bradyworks
- "Traces": "My 20th Century": May 21,
2008 / Bradyworks
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List
of Productions
The
Team:
Tim Brady -
artistic and general director
Emily Hall -
producer
Morris
Apelbaum -
technical direction and sound
Clément Topping -
administration
Pier-Luk Bouthillier -
graphic design/web
Nicholas Ryan
-
production manager (100 gtrs), press
and social media
Artistic Vision
Bradyworks
was originally created in 1989 in order to perform the music
of Tim Brady, whose work as a composer combines elements of
contemporary chamber music, jazz, rock and electroacoustic
music. The group's instrumentation - combining electric
guitar and saxophone with traditional chamber music forces
and live electronics - creates a unique sound world with a
vast array of timbres and performance traditions. The group
also has a strong interest in contemporary vocal chamber
repertoire. Since 1997 the group has expanded its repertoire
to include works by other composers which partake of a
similar artistic vision, often with a focus on
electroacoustic elements such as tape and live electronics.
History
Bradyworks made its début with two performances of the
music/dance project Inventions, created in
collaboration with choreographer Julie West in 1989. The
ensemble's first major festival performance on the was at the
1990 Festival international de musique actuelle de
Victoriaville. In 1991 it undertook a successful 12-city North
American tour, including a New York debut, and it released its
first CD, Inventions. In 1994 Bradyworks presented a 6-concert
Canadian tour, featuring the premiere of Brady's major song
cycle, Revolutionary Songs, as well as performances
from the 1994 CD release Scenarios.
From 1995 to 1998 the ensemble presented several concerts of
both acoustic and electronic music in Montreal including a
music/dance collaboration with choreographer Jo Leslie
entitled Strange Attractors, for electric guitar, live
electronics and tape. In April 1996 the ensemble released its
second CD - Revolutionary Songs - and was featured in
performance at the Festival international de musique actuelle
de Victoriaville where it performed excerpts from the new CD
as well as the premiere of a new work entitled The Time of
Drumming, in a concert recorded for Radio-Canada.
In 1999 Bradyworks added a full string quartet to the group,
bringing the total to 9 musicians and creating exciting new
possibilities for the ensemble in terms of orchestration and
timbre. In the fall of 2000 Bradyworks performed its third
major Canadian tour with guest artist mezzo-soprano Anne-Marie
Donovan, premiering Brady's new song-cycle The Knife
Thrower's Partner. The 2000 - 2001 season also included
a concert of vocal music, recorded for Radio-Canada, featuring
music by Claude Vivier, R. Murray Schafer, Serge Garant and
André Ristic, and a concert of new music for saxophone, piano,
percussion and tape, with guest composer / jazz pianist
François Bourassa. The 2001 - 2002 season saw Bradyworks
perform at The Kitchen in New York, presenting a concert in
collaboration with the Société québécoise de la recherche en
musicologie (a concert of music for strings, with
electronics), as well as producing a joint concert with Vox
21, one of Ireland's leading chamber ensembles. In 2003 the
group released its third CD, entitled Unison Rituals,
on the Ambiances magnétiques label.
In the fall
of 2003 Bradyworks undertook its first European tour with
concerts in England, Scotland and Ireland, including a live
concert broadcast for BBC Radio 3 recorded at the Maida Vale
studio in London. Following a successful premiere in October
2003 in Montreal, the group presented Brady's chamber opera Three
Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune in Toronto for
two nights in January 2005. In the spring of 2005 the ensemble
changed its instrumentation to its current line-up, including
clarinet and viola, in order to perform the music for Brady's
2-act chamber opera The Salome Dancer at the Open Ears
Festival in Kitchener. In the 2005 - 2006 season Bradyworks
released the opera Bethune on CD (Ambiances
magnétique) and in 2006 - 2007 they released 3 Solos -
the Music of R. Murray Schafer on Centrediscs, the
latter being a CD/DVD Audio release in 5.1 surround sound.
Recent productions include the "Shostakovitch@100
years" project at the Théâtre la Chapelle in
September 2006, John Oliver's opera "Alternate Visions"
at Usine C in May 2007, the 5 concerts of the "Voyages"
project with New York in April 2008, and, in May
2008, the group undertook an ambitious 5-city tour of Québec
with the multi-media project "My 20th Century",
including a performance at the prestigious Festival
international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville. Their
most recent major production was a very successful 10-city
cross-Canada tour of "My 20th Century",
including a performance at the acclaimed Winnipeg
Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival in February
2010. In March and April 2014 they undertook a 7-city tour of
the USA and Australia, including a radio broadcast for the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, in collaboration with
American baritone Thomas Buckner.
The group's most recent major
success was the production of "Atacama: Symphony #3",
a new work by artistic director Tim Brady. This impressive
55-minute work for 11 musicians and 20 singers was premiered in
Montreal in June 2012 to a standing ovation, was awarded the
PRIX OPUS for "Best new composition of the year"
in 2013, was released on CD on ATMA Classique and which was
opening concert at the prestigious Festival
international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville in
May 2013. The company's most recent project is the electric
guitar collective: Instruments of Happiness.
The group had several very successful performances of the
innovative their innovative 100 guitar projects in 2015, 2016
and 2017, and released it's first CD, "Instruments of Happiness
electric guitar quartet" in March 2016 on the American Starkland
label.
The Bradyworks Large Ensemble was featured at the 2017 Festival
international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville,
and released a major new CD in November 2018 - "Music for Large
Ensemble", featuring Brady's works "Désir: Concerto for Electric
Guitar and Large Ensemble" and "Eight Songs About : Symphony
#7", on the US Starkland Records. The CD won the American
Global Music Award for Best CD and Best Compostion
in 2019.
Bradyworks (BW Musique) is
funded the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the
Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, the
Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal,
the SOCAN Foundation, and private donations.

 
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