JUNO-nominated composer Amy Brandon's pieces have been described as “gut-wrenching and horrific” (Critipeg), "otherworldly, a clashing of bleakness with beauty" (Minor Seventh) and “arresting, riveting music, highly original and individual” (Simon Cummings, 5:4). Recent works include a NextGen commission for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (qililliil, 2025), and works for Alarm Will Sound (Incipit, MICF 2025), cellist Jeffrey Zeigler (Simulacra, 2022), Orbit Ensemble (Caeli Nullius, 2024), and Ensemble ArtChoral (Dust of the Water, 2023). Her installations and acoustic works have been presented at the ISCM World New Music Days, the Gaudeamus Festival (Screen Dive), Trinity College (Dublin), and the Winnipeg New Music Festival. She has received Canadian and international composition awards including the Leo Brouwer Guitar Composition Competition (Grand Prize 2019, adjudicated by Leo Brouwer), and was a 2020 JACK Quartet Studio Artist. She teaches composition at Dalhousie University at the Fountain School of Performing Arts in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.
