Brian Current
chef d'orchestre
A JUNO award-winning conductor and composer, Brian Current has been lauded for leading exceptional performances of outstanding repertoire. Described by the Globe and Mail as a conductor “with assurance and no undue fuss”, Current has been the main conductor of the Continuum Ensemble since 2011 and director of the New Music Ensemble of the Glenn School (The Royal Conservatory) since 2007. Current’s music, praised and broadcast in over 35 countries, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize for Orchestral Music (USA), the Premio Fedora (Italy) for Chamber Opera, and a Selected Work (under 30) at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris.
