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Courtney Bryan, a native of New Orleans, La, is a prolific and eclectic composer, pianist, and arranger. Her compositions range from solo works to large ensembles in the jazz and new music idioms, film scores, and collaborations of dancers, visual artists, writers, and actors. She performs around the New York area, and is the organist and director of the Institute for Sacred Music at Bethany Baptist Church of Newark, NJ. Courtney has academic degrees from Oberlin Conservatory '04 (BM), Rutgers University '07 (MM), and Columbia University '09 (MA). Currently, Courtney is an Instructor at Columbia University of New York while pursuing a DMA in music composition. Her sophomore CD, self-released in June 2010, is entitled "This Little Light of Mine." Selected performances include a solo piano composer concert by Courtney Bryan as part of the St. Paul's Chapel Concert Series, and a collaborative project entitled Blood Dazzler by Angela's Pulse premiered at Harlem Stage where Courtney was both composer and performer. Courtney was featured recently as a speaker in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) Conversation Series at Columbia University and in the Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival. www.lightofmineonline.com


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Resetting the Standard - Part 2

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This is the second part of an edition of Mondo Jazz that explores the repertoire built over the years by countless women composers, which are in part included in New Standards, the collection of 101 compositions by women composers curated by Terri Lyne Carrington for Berklee Press. For our selection we focus on instrumental tunes by musicians that are alive, and possibly still very young.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng ...

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Take Five with Courtney Bryan

Read "Take Five with Courtney Bryan" reviewed by Courtney Bryan


Meet Courtney Bryan: Courtney Bryan, a native of jny: New Orleans, is “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests" (New York Times). Her music ranges from solo works to large ensembles in the new music and jazz idioms, film scores, and collaborations with dancers, visual artists, writers, and actors. On April 9, 2015, her new work Sanctum for orchestra and recorded sound, commissioned by American Composers Orchestra (ACO), will be given its world premiere by ACO at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose ...

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Courtney Bryan, Black composer, marches to the beat of her own drum

Courtney Bryan, Black composer, marches to the beat of her own drum

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By Alicia Hall Moran “Musicians make decisions. They either support the status quo or break down barriers," says Courtney Bryan, a composer, pianist, academic and organist at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., who prefers the latter. Born in New Orleans, Bryan soaked up the music of her Caribbean- and West African-based Anglican church and her piano lessons in the European classical tradition. She immersed herself in her marching band and explored firsthand every which way of jazz: New Orleans ...

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Up Close with New Orleans' Native Daughter, Courtney Bryan

Up Close with New Orleans' Native Daughter, Courtney Bryan

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