BRYAN PEZZONE

Piano

Bryan Pezzone is the consummate cross-over pianist of his generation. He excels in classical, contemporary, jazz, and experimental genres and is well known for both his versatility and virtuosity as a performing artist, improviser and composer.

He performs with many major symphony orchestra associations, and is known in the Los Angeles area as one of the primary free-lance pianists for film and television soundtrack recording (and has been the pianist on virtually all of the cartoons released by Warner Brothers and Disney over the past six years ), contemporary music premieres, and chamber music accompanying. His workshops on his comprehensive approach to improvisation are frequently requested and he is a consulting editor for the well-known publication "Piano and Keyboard."

As a soloist, Bryan has performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra,Pasadena Pops, Santa Monica Symphony, Santa Clarita Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute Orchestra, United States International University Orchestra, U.C. Irvine Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonic and the Pacific Symphony.

He has also been invited to perform solo keyboard concerts that blend traditional concert repertoire, improvisations and original works using the Yamaha Midi Grand by Willamette University for it's Distinguished Artist Series, the University of Miami, Rice University and in many Southern California appearances including the California Institute of the Arts where he has been on the piano faculty since 1987 and has created their multi-focused keyboard program.

Since beginning his career in Los Angeles in 1987, Bryan has worked with many of the premiere contemporary music conductors (Pierre Boulez, Oliver Knussen, John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Kent Nagano). He is featured in collaborations on a vast number of professionally released recordings, and has been involved with nearly every major festival, series and performing arts organization, including: 

Regular appearances on Sundays at Four (broadcast live on KUSC FM 91.5), Monday Evening Concerts, the Green Umbrella Series with both the Cal Arts New Century Players and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, the Ojai Festival, Joeffrey Ballet (soloist in Stravinsky's "Les Noces"), Southwest Chamber Music Series and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

Recent recordings include the chamber works of John Briggs, "Settings" by Mel Powell, works of John Harbison and John Cage as well as with oboe soloists Allan Vogel (Delos), trombonist William Booth and many other area instrumentalists.