Jack Behrens (25 March 1935 – 9 December 2024) was a Canadian composer, music educator, and writer of American birth.
[1] Following his retirement from Western, Behrens was active at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) as Director of Academic Studies at The Glenn Gould School.
Behrens received commissions from Adele Marcus, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Ontario Arts Council, and Orchestra London among others.
Cockburn) as part of their research program on Viking literature, art, and music in Scandinavian countries.
The four-scene opera is based on an Icelandic legend and employs atonality and aleatoric and improvisational techniques.