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Brendan McMullin
Professor of Music
Education
University of California, Los Angeles - Master's Degree in Music Composition
California State University, Northridge - Bachelor's Degree in Winds-Brass and Single Subject Music Teaching Credential
About
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.”
Publications
- Mostly Marimba
** published “Suite for Marimba and Piano”
** published “Suite for Marimba and Piano”
- Naxos Records
** 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)”
** 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)”
- UNC Jazz Press
** published “Well You Needn’t” jazz big band arrangement
** published “Well You Needn’t” jazz big band arrangement
- Music Minus One (hired to transcribe and complete all music notation for play-along books and CDs)
** “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”
** “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”
Awards
- National Band Association’s Young Jazz Composer Composition Competition
** 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
** 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
- JPF Award Nomination under the category “Best Classical Orchestral Album”
** 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
** 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
- Masterworks Prize from ERM Media
- Moorpark College Part Time Faculty of the Month
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