Patricia Brennan
Vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer Patricia Brennan “has been widely feted as one of the instrument’s newer leaders” observed The New York City Jazz Record. Growing up in Veracruz, Mexico, Patricia’s childhood immersed her in the rich musical culture that developed her artistic voice. Patricia’s search for freedom in her musical expression led her to extending the range and sonic possibilities through the vibraphone and mallet percussion in improvisational music and composition. Her first album, the solo album Maquishti placed #4 in the New York Time’s Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2021. Patricia was voted the Rising Star Vibraphonist in the Downbeat Magazine 2022 Critics Poll. Her latest album More Touch, released November 2022 on Pyroclastic Records, was included in several Best Jazz Albums of 2022 lists such as NPR Best Music of 2022, Bandcamp and PopMatters, and the track ‘Unquiet Respect’ was listed in NPR’s 100 Best Songs of 2022.
Patricia works both as a leader and side person for renowned artists such as Grammy winning Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Big Band, the Grammy-nominated John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble and other bands including the Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, Matt Mitchell’s Phalax Ambassadors, Mary Halvorson’s Amaryllis amongst other groups and collectives. Patricia is a Valley of Search artist, Pyroclastic Records artist, Audeze artist and a BlueHaus Mallets artist, and is currently on the faculty at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, the Jazz Studies program at NYU Steinhardt, and has given lectures at Manhattan School of Music and UCLA.
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