Musical background: Composer/improviser, trained on piano/vibraphone. Also studied oboe and flute. She mainly studied with Stefon Harris at NYU, as well as George Garzone, Gil Goldstein, Joel Weiskopf, Don Friedman, and Tony Moreno. She studied in Ghana to study traditional Ghanaian Xylophone (Gyil/Dzil) at the Dagara Music Center run by Bernard Woma. She returned from a year of music study in Prague and Ghana in 2006. Gyil study involves multiple interlocking lines crossing from separate melodies in each hand, more like a pianists' handle than a vibraphonist's monophonic line execution involving alternating mallets. Her experience in Africa gave her a fortified percussive keyboard rhythmic diet and holistic view of repetition in composition. She has performed with orchestras, big bands, combos, rock bands, and jazz duos since the age of 12, most notably at Lincoln Center, European, US and Canadian International Jazz Festivals, Irving Plaza, Mercury Lounge, Bowery Ballroom, Birdland, the downtown scene et.al. While studying in Ghana she performed regularly in Accra at SF native vocalist Toni Manieson's Jazz Tone Club with the 5th Project Collective (hip hop group, whose former members include Old Boy and Everiman of Vamoose).Brittany has worked with classical and pop vocalists, including coloratura soprano Rebecca Duren, americana singer-songwriter Mary Bragg, and Soul-pop singer Mansingh. She teaches triadic solfege ear-training techniques. She has worked as a ghostwriter and accompanist/arranger, and has recorded commercial works.Credits also include Ravens and Chimes, Troi Bechet, Nepo Soteri, Denzel Rollins, Greg Heffernan, Josh Myers, George Garzone, Mike Mainieri, Earl Mansingh, Carmela Cristalli, and other friends.
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