** Won 1st place with the jazz big band composition “Sal y Pimienta” which was performed by the Airmen of Note at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
** The album “Masterworks of the New Era (Vol. 12)” which features his composition “Why You Gotta Be Like That (Jazz Overture for Full Orchestra)” received the nomination
Brendan McMullin is an experienced music educator having taught public school music courses since 2003 and college music courses since 2008. Currently he directs the award winning Moorpark College Jazz Ensembles and Wind Ensemble while teaching brass Applied Music majors privately. As a trombonist and vocalist he has shared the stage and/or recorded with artists such as Duffy Jackson, Barry Manilow, Eric Whitacre, Barbara Streisand, Clyde Reasinger, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra; and has performed on stage at the Academy Awards (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chG0z_qy-TU). He has earned numerous awards for his compositions including the 2014 National Band Association’s Young Composers Jazz Composition Contest where his jazz big band chart, Sal y Pimienta (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ek8Dpn_dlQ), was awarded first prize. As a result, the piece was performed at the Kennedy Center by the Airmen of Note. Additionally, Brendan’s composition, Why You Gotta Be Like That (Jazz Overture for Full Orchestra) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXgbdm2xxUs), was recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic and included in the album Masterworks of the New Era, Vol. 12, receiving a JPF Award Nomination under the category “Best Classical Orchestral Album.”
** published “Suite for Marimba and Piano”
** recorded “Why You Gotta Be Like That (Jazz Overture for Full Orchestra)” with the Kiev Philharmonic for inclusion in their album “Masterworks of the New Era (Vol.12)”
** published “Well You Needn’t” jazz big band arrangement
** “12 Classic Jazz Standards”
** “Busted”
** “I Remember Clifford” featuring Glenn Zottola
** “Motown Trombone” featuring Ira Nepus
** “Classic Ballads for Trombone” featuring Ira Nepus
** “Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra” by Édouard Lalo
** “Tribute to Johnny Hodges” featuring Bob Wilber
** “A Remembrance of Ben Webster” featuring Glenn Zottola
** “Sing the Songs of Cole Porter”
** “Cole Porter – Anything Goes (Vol. 2)”
** “Fats Waller Hits”
** “Jimmy McHugh Hits”
** “Johnny Mercer Vol. 1”
** “Johnny Mercer Vol. 2”
** “Sing the Songs of George Gershwin”
** “More Songs of George Gershwin, Vol. 2”
** “Songs of Duke Ellington”
** “Songs of Harry Warren”
** “Songs of Irving Berlin”
** “Songs of Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart”
** “The Music of Jerome Kern”