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Composer / guitarist Tim Brady defies categorization - an electric guitar virtuoso who writes operas, plays concertos and feels as comfortable with a laptop electronic improvisation as with a string quartet.  The guitar as orchestra - his music is a highly personal synthesis of contemporary classical, jazz, rock and electronics.

For the past 40 years he has toured the world, both as a soloist and with his chamber group Bradyworks and his electric guitar collective Instruments of Happiness.  In 2004 he won the Prix Opus “Composer of the Year” prize, given by the Conseil québécois de la musique. In 2007 he was awarded the Jan. V. Matecjek award by SOCAN.  He has performed at many major festivals and venues, including the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Festival Présence in Paris, The South Bank Centre in London, the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville, and in 2010 he was featured composer at the Winnipeg Symphony’s International New Music Festival.  From 2008 to 2013 he was composer-in-residence with the Orchestre symphonique de Laval, and has worked with the Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Québec City and Vancouver symphonies.  

His ”Violin Concerto #2” was premiered by the OSM in February 2023 to great acclaim. His CD, “Atacama: Symphony #3”, was named “Création de l’année” for 2012 at the Prix Opus in Québec and it was nominated for a JUNO in 2014.

In 2015 “Atacama: Symphony #3” had its New York premiere at the prestigious National Sawdust Concert Hall, in a performance featuring the Grammy-nominated Trinity Wall Street Choir.  In 2023 his CD “Symphony in 18 parts” was reviewed as a “Classical Choice of the week” by the New York Times.

His chamber and orchestral music is often influenced by strong jazz and rock rhythms, combined with a subtle sense of harmony and texture, and a flair for dramatic forms and structures.  Delicate melodies inhabit the same world as dense, jagged, syncopated chords, giving the music a sense of openness, surprise and intrigue.  27 CDs, 5 operas, 15 symphonies, and dozens of international tours later, his music continues to engage listeners around the world.