Brandon Chow is a Canadian composer whose music has been performed and recorded across Canada and Europe. His collaborators include the Talea Ensemble (New York), Victoria Symphony, Turning Point Ensemble, Land’s End Chamber Ensemble, soprano Charlotte Mundy, violinist Erika Raum, and pianist Claudia Pérez-Iñesta. He studied electronic music with Andrew Schloss and composition with Rodney Sharman, Dániel Péter Biró and Richard Barrett. In 2016, his orchestral work Tilikum was commissioned and premiered by the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra. A recipient of several Canada Council for the Arts grants, his chamber piece Regnvejr i Skoven was awarded a 2018 SOCAN Foundation Prize. Chow has participated in the CCRMA workshops in computer music (2017), the Delian Academy for New Music (2019), the Domaine Forget international festival (2024), and the One-Year Sonology Course (2025) at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. He was featured in New Music Concerts Toronto’s 2020 season, and his work for ensemble and electronics, Grey Waters, was premiered by the Talea Ensemble and hosted by Vancouver New Music in 2022. His current projects include an orchestral work inspired by the Coeur de Lion McCarthy sculpture L’Ange de la Victoire, and a string quartet referencing the lethal cardiac arrhythmia torsades de pointes.

Chow’s eclectic sonic language draws from diverse influences and source materials, including the visual arts, literature, histopathology, and short-wave radio. His current preoccupations focus on the transformation of musical material and its structural implications, the musical context of surrealism, the relationship between temporal and spatial media, the dialogue between humans and technology, and the coexistence of nature and artifice, alongside experimentation with extremes in musical parameters and notation. Ultimately, he views his work simultaneously as an act of discovery and an act of healing.