Brittany is a brooklyn based musician, performer and composer and noted pianist/vibraphonist. Her creative and performance work spans a range of musical versatility from jazz improvisation, electronic dance music, metal, outsider music, and rock. She has been heard on the radio, TV, and internet. She has performed and recorded with bands such as Ravens and Chimes, Emanuel & the Fear, the Great Republic of Rough and Ready, Xenia Rubinos, and others. Her commercial work has been played on the air for Walgreens, Publix and Ebay.
She began piano studies at age 5, and continued on vibraphone in addition to flute, oboe, and Ghanaian xylophone. She has toured and performed in 13 countries in North America, Europe and Africa. She holds a bachelor's in jazz performance and philosophy from NYU, where she was a student of Stefon Harris (vibraphone), George Garzone (sax/composition), Tony Moreno (drums), Gil Goldstein (piano/arranging), Don Friedman (piano), and Joel Weiskopf (piano). She has also studied with Vijay Iyer, Jason Moran, and Rudresh Manhanthappa. She spent a year studying composition in Prague with Czech contemporary composer Milan Slavicky and jazz pianist Emil Viklicky, and in Ghana with master xylophonist Bernard Woma. She writes with and plays a Ghanaian xylophone (Gyil) tuned closely to a Gb pentatonic scale. She recently assisted composer David Wolfert with orchestrations for True Bromance, a film score with a live orchestral premiere, upcoming at the Kennedy Center upcoming in 2012. She will soon be responsible for transcribing and sharing the impossible music of cult legend band The Shaggs on the internet.
She loves engineering, producing, improvisation, composing, dancing, dubstep, metal, and all things music and tech geek.