Artistic Producer

New Music Concerts

Since 2022, Brian has served as Artistic Director of New Music Concerts, a 55-year-old professional contemporary music organization based in Toronto, Canada. He succeeded the renowned flutist Robert Aitken, who led the organization for five decades.

Under Brian’s leadership, New Music Concerts continues to champion adventurous music in all its forms, situated within the cultural complexity of 21st-century Toronto. The organization presents ambitious concert programming alongside a wide range of education and outreach initiatives that engage listeners from diverse backgrounds and experiences.

New Music Ensemble of The Glenn Gould School (The Royal Conservatory)

Since 2007, Brian has served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the New Music Ensemble at Canada’s flagship training institution for orchestral musicians. The ensemble is composed of graduate students from many countries and functions as a vital laboratory for contemporary ensemble performance.

Through this role, Brian has produced and led the premieres of dozens of large-scale works by Canadian composers and has collaborated closely with many international composers. The ensemble performs regularly as part of The Royal Conservatory’s 21C Festival, the Canadian Opera Company’s noon-hour concert series, and New Music Concerts’ Young Artist Overtures.

Artists of the Opera Missing (ATOM)

Brian is a collective member of Artists of the Opera Missing (ATOM), a group formed through the creation and ongoing life of the opera Missing, which addresses the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada.

ATOM continues to foster awareness and dialogue through community engagement, consultation, and semi-staged performances of the work in both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contexts.

Maniac Star

Maniac Star is a creative collective dedicated to the collaborative development and production of new staged and concert works. Projects include Airline Icarus, Gould’s Wall, and the full-evening oratorio The River of Light, each shaped through long-term collaboration and presented in both concert and theatrical contexts.