Tim Brady

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Full Name	Tim Brady
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Jul 11, 1956(1956-07-11)
Age	68
Country	Canada
Birth City	Montreal
Horoscope	Cancer

Tim Brady Biography

Tim Brady is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on July 11, 1956 in Montreal, Canada. Brady was born in Montreal on the 11th of July 1956. He started playing guitar at the age of eleven and was mostly self-taught up to the age of 19 with the only exception to 18-months of fundamental guitar instruction for beginners (chords and strumming as well as playing traditional acoustic music). He made the switch from acoustic to electric guitar when he was sixteen and began his own rock group shortly after. The group (going under the names of Tosh or Mystrale) quickly developed into an instrument not just for playing however, but also to compose music. By the age of nineteen, his love for the jazz genre and music for other instruments had surpassed the talents that the band had. (now close to an almost jazz-fusion) group.

Brady’s Toronto time also marks that he began his career as an event producer. In 1982, he launched his production firm Contemporary Music Projects, and the company would stage and produce at major jazz orchestra events alongside legendary American musician Gil Evans (1984) and the eminent Canadian composer/trumpeter Kenny Wheeler (1985).

However, two works of the Toronto period point to the future vision of music as a more unified means of expression, without stylistic boundaries: SOUND OFF (1983), for 40 saxes, 30 trombones, 30 trumpets and 8 bass drums (an outdoor performance piece – unperformed until 1999) and Visions (1984), for improvising soloist and string orchestra. This latter work was to become his first CD release in 1988, in a remarkable performance by trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, with the Orchestre de chambre de Montréal.

From 1986 to 1987 Brady lived in London, England, studying conducting privately with Odaline de la Martinez, playing jazz gigs with well-known UK jazz musicians such as Clark Tracey and Guy Barker, and recording a studio concert of originals for the BBC.

In the year 1980, Brady relocated to Toronto in 1980, where he began his career as both a contemporary classical composer as well as an jazz guitarist. In Toronto his compositional work was heavily influenced by contemporary tendencies (i.e. : Elliott Carter, Anton Webern, Pierre Boulez) and included his first professional chamber work for ensemble and voice, four Songs as well as an Intermezzo, and other early pieces like the String Quartet #1, the chamber piece Five Settings (1983, commissioned by Arraymusic) as well as his Chamber Concerto (1985, commissioned by New Music Concerts). A string of innovative however traditional modernist orchestral and chamber compositions would soon begin to earn Brady’s name as a composer in Canada and win the composer five awards by CAPAC (now SOCAN) from 1982 until 1986. In addition, the finalist spot in the 1986 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Young Composers competition, with his composition Visions. The most complex and ambitious of his modernist composition composed for orchestra, the 1982 score Variants, premiered in the Esprit Orchestra in Toronto in the 1987-88 season and which was recorded by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as after he was awarded the 1986 Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux Award (CAPAC).

Tim Brady Net Worth

Tim Brady is one of the richest Composer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim Brady 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Timothy Wesley John Brady (born 11 July 1956) is a Canadian electronic guitarist, composer and improvising musician, record producer, concert producer, and activist for culture. He is a specialist in modern musical styles, including experimental and classical and music that is contemporary His compositions employ diverse styles ranging that range from minimalism to serialism. They often include electronic guitars as well as various electroacoustic instruments. His music is characterized by the synthesis of different musical languages. He has acquired the ability to incorporate elements of a variety of styles while still maintaining a distinct feeling of personal expression. His most well-known pieces include the orchestral compositions Variants and Visions as well as the chamber concerto he composed in 1985, Chamber Concerto (1985), the chamber trio …in the Wake… (1985 1988) and the song-cycle Revolutionary Songs (1994).

Brady was a musician during his time at Concordia University in Montreal (1975-1978 and composition together with Alan Crossman, guitar with Claude Dyotte), followed by master’s courses in the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston (1978-1980 composed along with W. Thomas McKinley and guitar with famous Mick Goodrick).

During this period his various jazz groups/big bands performed in clubs and concerts in Toronto and Montréal, and did recordings of his original jazz works for the CBC Radio programme Jazz Beat, as well as for the new music/contemporary classical programme Two New Hours. Brady had his first major international collaboration in 1983, performing a duo concert at the Edmonton Jazz City Festival with the Hungarian bass virtuoso Aladar Pege.

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The first major Bradyworks project was Inventions, a 90-minute music and dance collaboration, created in conjunction with Ottawa choreographer Julie West. The work included the 5 musicians of Bradyworks plus the jazz soloists Barre Phillips (bass) and John Surman (saxophones). A CD of the project was released in the autumn of 1991, to coincide with the groups’ first major tour, including 13 concerts across Canada, plus a performance at Roulette, New York’s well-known experimental music space. The tour featured a chamber work entitled The Songline, which had been commissioned by and premiered at the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV).

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Out of this failed opera experience came his first major song-cycle, entitled Revolutionary Songs (1993), based on a variety of poems in English, French and Spanish. Sung by soprano Nathalie Paulin, and scored for Bradyworks, the work was premiered at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and later released on CD in 1996, supported by a 5-city Canadian tour. The work combines pulsing, jazz and minimalist inflected harmonies with distorted rock guitar and a large range of electronic tape sounds to create a 40-minute portrait of the experience of political revolution. The work had three American performances in 2001, at The Kitchen (New York City, performed by Bradyworks), in Kansas City (New Ear Ensemble), and in Boston (Auros New Music Ensemble).