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Brynn Albanese Biography
Brynn Albanese has celebrated a career spanning almost 40 years from California to the East Coast, Europe, Asia and South America. After graduation from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, she was the Concertmaster of the Tanglewood Orchestra under Simon Rattle, Gustav Meijer, Rodger Norrington and Seiji Ozawa. For eight years she enjoyed playing, touring, and recording with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Ozawa and The Boston Pops under John Williams and Keith Lockhart. She has recorded over a dozen movie scores under Maestro John Williams including Schindler’s List, Jurrasic Park and Saving Private Ryan. In 1998, she moved across the Atlantic to the Netherlands.
From 1998 to 2005, Brynn played with the Philharmonic of The Hague under the baton of former New York Philharmonics conductor, Jaap Van Zweeden. She traveled the span of Europe, Asia and South America participating in various chamber music festivals and performed with orchestras. After a rich experience all around, she decided to return full circle to California in 2006 to be close to home.
Upon returning, Brynn enjoyed being Concertmaster of the Monterey Symphony, Principal Second Violin of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra under Marin Alsop and performing under Scott Yoo in the Festival Mozaic Orchestra. She also delved into a passion for World Music when she joined the ensemble, Café Musique in 2008 and has performed all over California and in Europe. They quickly became a sensation and delighted audiences for 15 years, In the spring of 2020, and at the start of the Pandemic, they officially closed their doors after fifteen years.
In 2018, Brynn became the Founder/Artistic Director of “Cambria Concerts Unplugged”, a popular music series taking place currently at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, a 100-seat venue in Cambria, California.
Early in the pandemic period of 2020, Albanese created a mobile outdoor-indoor One-Woman-Show. Performing curbside, in driveways, cul-du-sacs, medians, backyards and front yards as well as venues from California to Alaska and beyond.
Currently, Brynn is a Certified Music Practitioner for Dignity Health Central Coast. In 2020 Brynn completed training to become a Certified Music Practitioner and End of Life Doula. This work offers therapeutic music sessions by the bedside in Hospitals, Skilled Nursing and Memory Care Centers. Therapeutic Music uses the science of sound as complementary care to conventional allopathic medicine, providing one-on-one therapeutic music at the bedside for all kinds of patient conditions to promote improved quality of life during treatment and the healing process.
Brynn is also a graduate of the International End of Life Doula Association. She provides support and companionship for the terminally ill and actively dying patient as well as their families in the last months, weeks, days, and hours of life. Music is a very important part of her process as a Doula. She hosts a monthly online discussion group in the form of, Death Café. This is a safe and welcoming space to speak about everything relating to death and dying. A subject massively misunderstood and even avoided. She helps to make the subject less scary and more tolerable to talk about.
Brynn’s work as a CMP has also been taken under the wing of Ecolologistics.org, a Non-Profit support company that helps individuals and small companies build and support environmental, economic, and social justice projects. Brynn’s company name, Pneuma Melodies falls under social impact. Ecologistics provides a platform for these projects to receive donations to be able to continue their work. Brynn uses the money raised through Ecologistics to play for the underprivileged, addiction treatment centers, homeless services organizations, mental health treatment centers, memory care and for the developmentally disabled. She is an active multi genre recording artist and recently has released a therapeutic music solo album called “From My Heart To Yours”. It is available for purchase on Bandcamp.
For more information, please visit: brynnalbanese.com
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