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Wreckhouse International Jazz & Blues Festival Day 1 part 214th of July, 2009 BILL BRENNAN & THE BANDA BRAZIL @ MARTINI BAR (Above Peddler's On George Street). Bill Brennan's expertise as a pianist, percussionist, composer and producer can be heard on some 80 albums to date. His recent album Solo Piano has received nominations for MusicNL and ECMA "Instrumental Album of the Year". Brennan has recorded with the Heillig Manouevre, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan and Vuja De. He appears on CDs by Juno-nominated Teresa Doyle, ambient-pop-rocker Andy Stochansky, guitarist Kevin Breit, torch folksinger Andrea Koziol and by fellow Newfoundlanders Sandy Morris, Patrick Boyle and Barry Canning. He has backed up such greats as Cab Calloway, Placido Domingo and Dizzy Gillespie. Always in demand as a folk and jazz pianist, Brennan plays regularly with his own bands, as well as with Oliver Schroer, Wendell Ferguson, marimbist Mika Yoshida, dancer Sarah Chase and many more. He has performed across North America and around the world: Austria, Germany, France, Japan, Norway, the Czech Republic, England, Scotland, Portugal and Switzerland. Over the past two decades, Brennan has been involved with some of the best-known organizations in Canadian culture. He has performed with the National Ballet and the Canadian Opera Company. He was musical director of CBC's beloved Vinyl Cafe (hosted by Stuart MacLean), and a documentary composer for David Suzuki’s The Nature of Things. Brennan was musical director and composer for Building Jerusalem, an award-winning play by Michael Redhill (Best new production, Dora Awards, 2000). He has also performed on film soundtracks for The Ice Storm (directed by Ang Lee) and Antwone Fisher (directed by Denzel Washington). Nationally and internationally, his work has been formally recognized through the awarding of a number of prestigious awards and commissions, including the Freddie Stone Memorial Award (1999). He has been commissioned to compose for contemporary music performers including Hemispheres and percussionist Romano DiNillo. Several of these works have been premiered at the Sound Symposium. More than 20 years of relentless experience have garnered Brennan a solid reputation as a player, composer and arranger of contemporary classical, jazz, folk and world music - always exploring, always open to new ideas, Brennan’s talents resist classification. Brennan was named the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Artist of the Year for 2006. Return to gallery layout
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