Member of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 2020-11-27
Invested on: 2022-12-14
Brian Cherney, C.M.
Montréal, Quebec
Brian Cherney has had a lasting impact on Canada’s musical landscape. His imaginative compositions, which can be enjoyed on multiple sensory levels, have been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles and soloists in Canada and around the world. With a catalogue of over 100 pieces, he has garnered an international reputation as one of our country’s greatest composers. He has also inspired and mentored generations of artists throughout his five-decade-long teaching career at McGill University, and is a champion of past and present Canadian composers.