Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University of California, San Diego; he teaches at Stanford University and is a regular lecturer in the summer courses at Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He has resided in California since 1987.
Contemporary classical music, also called modern classical, is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial music, electronic music, experimental music, and minimalist music. Newer forms of music include spectral music, and post-minimalism.
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.
Richard Emsley is a British composer, sometimes associated with the New Complexity school.
New Complexity is a label principally applied to composers seeking a "complex, multi-layered interplay of evolutionary processes occurring simultaneously within every dimension of the musical material".
Nicolas Hodges is a pianist living in Germany.
Christopher Fox is an English composer and writer on music.
Ian Geoffrey Pace is a British pianist. Pace studied at Chetham's School of Music, The Queen's College, Oxford and the Juilliard School in New York. His main teacher was the Hungarian pianist György Sándor.
Carl Rosman is an Australian clarinettist, singer and conductor.
Aaron Cassidy is an American composer.
Geoff Hannan is a British composer and musician born to Irish parents. He studied composition privately with Michael Finnissy from 1987 to 1990 before reading Music at the University of Manchester. In 2006 he was awarded a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, where, with financial assistance from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, he studied composition with film composer Brian Lock.
Roger Redgate is a British composer, conductor and improvisor. Born in Bolton, he began his musical training at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, then attended the Royal College of Music where he studied with Edwin Roxburgh and Lawrence Casserley. Under a DAAD scholarship he also studied with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber in Freiburg. In 1984, with the new complexity composers Richard Barrett and Michael Finnissy, he co-founded Ensemble Exposé.
Richard Barrett is a Welsh composer.
Franklin Cox is an American composer, scholar, and cellist.
The ELISION Ensemble is a chamber ensemble specialising in contemporary classical music, concentrating on the creation and presentation of new works. The ensemble comprises a core of around 20 virtuoso musicians from Australia and around the world.
Matthew Shlomowitz is a composer of contemporary classical music and Associate Professor in Composition at the University of Southampton.
John Ralph Alexander Giles (Alex) Abercrombie was a British pianist, composer, and mathematician.
Richard Beaudoin is an American composer of contemporary music. His music and writings explore compositional uses of expressive timing, or microtiming.
Sam Hayden is an English composer of classical and electronic music and an academic. His music has won several prestigious prizes and been performed widely at international music festivals.
The 36 Verdi Transcriptions for piano by the British composer Michael Finnissy were composed between 1972 and 2005. They are based on the works of Giuseppe Verdi.
