Composer and violist Brett Banducci graduated with
a BM in Viola Performance from California State
University Northridge, having studied with Pamela
Goldsmith and Keith Greene. He completed
his MA in music composition, in June of 2009, at the University of
California, Riverside, under Byron Adams, Paulo
Chagas, Tim Labor and Renée Coulombe. Brett is
currently pursuing his DMA in music composition
at the University of Southern California, where
he studies with Frank Ticheli. He has also studied at the Aspen Music Festival and School with Sydney
Hodkinson.
An active freelance violist he has recently performed, as a substitute musician, with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale Orchestra and Pacific Symphony, along with the New West Symphony, Pasadena Pops Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, the Bach Festival Orchestra, the Ojai Festival Orchestra, the Jacaranda music series, the Dilijian Ensemble and the recently formed Hollywood Symphony Orchestra. He was a founding member of one of Los Angeles' most unique ensembles, Mládí, which performed in a variety of guises, from conductor-less chamber orchestra to innovative chamber music ensembles until it's dissolution in 2009. Through this ensemble he has performed chamber works at the Bruman chamber music series, the Jacaranda chamber music series and on live radio broadcasts from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art via the K-Mozart Sunday’s Live series.
A contributing member to the Hollywood Studio Symphony Brett has played on countless films and record albums by some of the industry’s leading artists, including: John Debney, Mark Isham, Patrick Williams, Chris Beck, Jorge Calendrelli, Clint Mansell, James Horner, Danny Elfman, Clint Eastwood, Lennie Niehaus, Mark Snow, Debbie Lurie, John Ottman, Harry Gregson Williams and recording artists Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, Ben Harper, Mandy Moore, David Archuleta and Micheal Bublé, to name a few. In 2008 Brett to joined the Membership/Outreach Committee of the Recording Musicians Association/Los Angeles (RMALA) where he works closely with industry recording musicians to broaden and increase the affiliation of the association.
Brett’s compositions have been heard in a variety of venues including the world première of his Two Poetic Images (2008), Wednesdays @ One (UCR) with cellist Ira Glansbeek, Three Guises of Demeter (2008), UCR Composeres Collective Concert, with pianist Lawrence Hu and Periods for Woodwind Quintet (2008), UCR is Composing, by the Mládí Woodwind Quintet, Threnody (2004) by Mládí, Trois poèmes d’Apollinaire (2005) at UCLA with soprano Duana Demus, Ants Without Shade (2005) by Project Accidental and soprano Moira Smiley. In March of 2009 Brett’s Sonatina (2006/7) for oboe d’amore, harp and string quartet, was given its world première by oboist Paul Sherman and members of Ensemble Green and in May of 2009 Timothy Loo performed his Two Poetic Images for Cello Solo to high acclaim. Brett was the soloist in the world première of his Vacant Leaves (2009) for viola and percussion at the Orgeon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium in 2009. His work Elegy for YSL (2008) for two pianos was premiered in 2009 by Ting Ting Wong and Christian Liu at the Aspen Music Festival and School— where he was participating in the Composition Individual Studies Program.
Currently on the Advisory Board of The Creative Kids Education Foundation Brett is a board member of the Southern California Viola Society, where he also serves as Director of Composer Outreach and was the recipient of the 2005 Composer in Residence award given by the Creative Kids Education Foundation.
Future projects include preparing for publication prefaces for the three viola sonatas of Ernst Krenek for Universal Edition, Vienna, which will be available in the summer of 2010. Brett is currently working on an article on the subject of Krenek and his sonatas which include viola for the Journal of the American Viola Society, to appear in Spring 2010.
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