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Place of Birth: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
About Brian Cherney
- Brian Cherney (born 1942) is a Canadian composer currently residing in Montreal, Quebec. Cherney was born in Peterborough, Ontario.
- He studied at the University of Toronto where he was a pupil of John Weinzweig, Samuel Dolin, and John Beckwith.
- In 1972 he joined Schulich School of Music of McGill University, where he has taught analysis and composition for over thirty years.
- His pieces, often characterized by carefully calculated formal trajectories and a rich harmonic language, give the impression of a quiet intensity, usually featuring "stillness" in some manner.
- His works have been played throughout North America, Europe, and elsewhere.
- Cherney maintains an active career as a composer, teacher and author; his book Harry Somers (1975, U of T Press) remains one of the most important and detailed works of reference on this composer.
- He was awarded the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 1985 for River of Fire.
- He is the brother of oboist Lawrence Cherney.
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