Brian Ferneyhough
British composer. Ferneyhough received his formal training at the Birmingham Conservatoire from 1961 – 1963 and studied composition with Sir Lennox Berkeley at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1966 – 1967. He then studied composition privately with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam in 1968 – 1969 and with Klaus Huber at the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel from 1969 – 1971. He has written numerous articles for publications on contemporary music, many of which appear in Collected Writings (1995, edited by James Boros and Richard Toop, Harwood Academic Publishers). He has served as a member of the editorial board of the journal Perspectives of New Music since 1995. He taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1973 – 1986 and regularly gave masterclasses at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan from 1984 – 1987. He then taught as the principal teacher of composition at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag in 1986 – 1987 and as Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego from 1987 – 2000. He has taught composition as the William H. Bonsall Professor in Music at Stanford University since 2000. He has given classes and lectures at the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt since 1976 and served as coordinator of its course in composition from 1984 – 1994. Moreover, he has directed the courses in composition Voix Nouvelles at the Fondation Royaumont since 1990 and has taught at IRCAM in Paris since 1993. He has held guest professorships at Harvard University, the Kungliga Musikhögskolan – Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the University of Chicago.