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Brian De Lorenzo
Talent America's 2001 Performer of the Year BRIAN De LORENZO is equally at home in night clubs, concert halls, and theatres. He has performed in such places as Israel, Wales, Spain, Scotland, Italy, and England, as well as cruise ships in Alaska, the Mediterranean, and crossing the Atlantic. He has sung at clubs such as The Iridium, Birdland, 54 Below, Don't Tell Mama, and Eighty-Eight's in New York; Piaf's in San Francisco; Odette's in New Hope, PA; and at various venues in Massachusetts including Scullers Jazz Club, Club Cafe, and The Crown & Anchor.
Brian earned the title Performer of the Year by winning first place at Talent America's 27th Annual "Talent of the Year Awards" in New York, competing with performers from all over the US.
Brian's debut recording Found Treasures was nominated for the "Recording of the Year Award" by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC). He is also featured extensively on the original cast recording Made in America: Vaudeville Songs, a tribute to the Gumm (Judy Garland) family in which he starred at Don't Tell Mama in New York.
Brian was nominated for an IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for "Best Cabaret Show" for "Marry Me (a Little)," which he performed at Boston's Club Café. Other shows nominated for IRNEs include "Mama, a Rainbow" [Scullers, Boston and Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, Rochester, NY] and "How Was I To Know? – Songs of Richard Rodgers."
Brian has performed at the 1st and 2nd Chicago Cabaret Conventions, appearing with nationally recognized cabaret talent. Brian has also sung at the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention in New York with well-known cabaret artists Eric Comstock, Mary Cleere Haran, Jeff Harnar, Phillip Officer, KT Sullivan, and others; and at three Boston Cabaret Festivals. He has also performed with Broadway star Judy Kuhn in the Overtures Productions concert staging of THE BAKER'S WIFE and with George Dvorsky and Tony Award winner Alice Ripley in Overtures' ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY in Boston.Talent America 2001 "Performer of the Year"
Talent America Blair Hammond Award
"Best Ensemble" IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New
England) Award for THE WILD PARTY at New Repertory
Theatre
Elliot Norton "Outstanding Musical" Award for ON THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY with Overture Productions
Nominations:
Debut recording Found Treasures
nominated for "Recording of the Year" by the Manhattan
Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC)
Nominated three times for an IRNE Award for "Best
Cabaret Show": "Marry Me (a Little);" "Mama, a Rainbow;" and
"How Was I To Know? – Songs of Richard Rodgers"
"Best Musical" IRNE Nomination for A CHRISTMAS CAROL at
North Shore Music Theatre
Brian earned the title Performer of the Year by winning first place at Talent America's 27th Annual "Talent of the Year Awards" in New York, competing with performers from all over the US.
Brian's debut recording Found Treasures was nominated for the "Recording of the Year Award" by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC). He is also featured extensively on the original cast recording Made in America: Vaudeville Songs, a tribute to the Gumm (Judy Garland) family in which he starred at Don't Tell Mama in New York.
Brian was nominated for an IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for "Best Cabaret Show" for "Marry Me (a Little)," which he performed at Boston's Club Café. Other shows nominated for IRNEs include "Mama, a Rainbow" [Scullers, Boston and Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, Rochester, NY] and "How Was I To Know? – Songs of Richard Rodgers."
Brian has performed at the 1st and 2nd Chicago Cabaret Conventions, appearing with nationally recognized cabaret talent. Brian has also sung at the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention in New York with well-known cabaret artists Eric Comstock, Mary Cleere Haran, Jeff Harnar, Phillip Officer, KT Sullivan, and others; and at three Boston Cabaret Festivals. He has also performed with Broadway star Judy Kuhn in the Overtures Productions concert staging of THE BAKER'S WIFE and with George Dvorsky and Tony Award winner Alice Ripley in Overtures' ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY in Boston.
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Brian De Lorenzo at Scullers Jazz Club
There are good shows and there are great shows, but once in a blue moon you’re at a cabaret and you know something extraordinary is going on.
- Beverly Creasey, CABARET SCENES
Found Treasures CD
Although the title of Brian De Lorenzo's Found Treasures refers to the songs it contains, the cabaret singer is one himself. Possessing a clear tenor which he uses with earnest emotional intensity, De Lorenzo sings with complete commitment.
- Max O. Preeo, SHOW MUSIC
Found Treasures CD
Emotional honesty is a cabaret singer's stock in trade, and De Lorenzo has it. He makes every song sound like an account of his own experience and emotions, and he conveys each one with a directness that makes the experience the listener's as well.... De Lorenzo...is a talented music theater artist with an easy- to-listen-to voice, an engaging, emotionally honest style, and an uncanny knack for picking great, little-known songs.... Ask your record store for it, and if they don't have it, tell them they should.
- Jon Lehman, THE PATRIOT LEDGER
When a singer has a voice like Brian De Lorenzo, musicians like to say, "He is a songwriter's best friend." Schooled in musical theatre since he was a child, De Lorenzo brings to the stage an instrument that is not only well-trained but strikingly beautiful. He has one of those rare voices that make first-time listeners stop and say, "Who is that?"
- Chet Williamson, WORCESTER MAGAZINE
Found Treasures Cabaret Show
His vocals place him among the best currently appearing on the New York cabaret scene.
- Stu Hamstra, CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
Found Treasures Cabaret Show
De Lorenzo has a very pretty voice, he's especially good at making eye contact, and he's very likable. His "Tonight at Eight" is exuberant, he performs "My First True Love" with considerable personality and charm, and his rendition of "Giants in the Sky" has vitality.
- Roy Sander, BACK STAGE
The 12th Annual Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention at Town Hall, NYC
And now, please embrace us with your forgiveness for not having given you the highlights of the convention till this moment. In no particular order, they are: Best Dramatic Performances:...Brian De Lorenzo...
- Scott & Barbara Siegel, BACK STAGE
CabaretFest! Provincetown
De Lorenzo had the audience alternately swooning and cheering in an unconventional version of "Who Will Buy" from Oliver, then had them mesmerized during "A Trick of Fate," by David Friedman. The trio's sensational reprise of "Fun/Stuck on You" demonstrated the shear joy of cabaret for both performers and audience. It doesn't get much better than this.
- THEATERMANIA.COM
There are good shows and there are great shows, but once in a blue moon you’re at a cabaret and you know something extraordinary is going on.
- Beverly Creasey, CABARET SCENES
Found Treasures CD
Although the title of Brian De Lorenzo's Found Treasures refers to the songs it contains, the cabaret singer is one himself. Possessing a clear tenor which he uses with earnest emotional intensity, De Lorenzo sings with complete commitment.
- Max O. Preeo, SHOW MUSIC
Found Treasures CD
Emotional honesty is a cabaret singer's stock in trade, and De Lorenzo has it. He makes every song sound like an account of his own experience and emotions, and he conveys each one with a directness that makes the experience the listener's as well.... De Lorenzo...is a talented music theater artist with an easy- to-listen-to voice, an engaging, emotionally honest style, and an uncanny knack for picking great, little-known songs.... Ask your record store for it, and if they don't have it, tell them they should.
- Jon Lehman, THE PATRIOT LEDGER
When a singer has a voice like Brian De Lorenzo, musicians like to say, "He is a songwriter's best friend." Schooled in musical theatre since he was a child, De Lorenzo brings to the stage an instrument that is not only well-trained but strikingly beautiful. He has one of those rare voices that make first-time listeners stop and say, "Who is that?"
- Chet Williamson, WORCESTER MAGAZINE
Found Treasures Cabaret Show
His vocals place him among the best currently appearing on the New York cabaret scene.
- Stu Hamstra, CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
Found Treasures Cabaret Show
De Lorenzo has a very pretty voice, he's especially good at making eye contact, and he's very likable. His "Tonight at Eight" is exuberant, he performs "My First True Love" with considerable personality and charm, and his rendition of "Giants in the Sky" has vitality.
- Roy Sander, BACK STAGE
The 12th Annual Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention at Town Hall, NYC
And now, please embrace us with your forgiveness for not having given you the highlights of the convention till this moment. In no particular order, they are: Best Dramatic Performances:...Brian De Lorenzo...
- Scott & Barbara Siegel, BACK STAGE
CabaretFest! Provincetown
De Lorenzo had the audience alternately swooning and cheering in an unconventional version of "Who Will Buy" from Oliver, then had them mesmerized during "A Trick of Fate," by David Friedman. The trio's sensational reprise of "Fun/Stuck on You" demonstrated the shear joy of cabaret for both performers and audience. It doesn't get much better than this.
- THEATERMANIA.COM
