Concert Series Opens with Bryan Pezzone

Noted pianist and composer Byran Pezzone will perform in concert in the Glendale Community College Auditorium on Saturday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m. Admission is free.

Pezzone has been a freelance performing and recording artist in the Los Angeles area since 1987. He is known as a versatile performer who is comfortable in classical, contemporary and improvisational styles. He performs with composers and musicians as diverse as Pierre Boulez, John Williams, and John Adams, and records on countless film and television soundtracks. He is the pianist in the group Free Flight; a crossover classical/jazz quartet. These concerts feature many of his own compositions. In addition, Pezzone has initiated a performing series that he calls “Freedom Series” which involves improvisations and verbal musings on life. He was principal pianist in the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra from its inception in 1991 through1999 as well as the former chair and

founder of the keyboard department at the California Institute of the Arts from 1987-2000.

As a soloist, Pezzone has performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Pops, Santa Monica Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute

Orchestra, United States International University Orchestra, U.C. Irvine Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonic and the Pacific Symphony. He has also been invited to perform solo keyboard concerts that blend traditional concert repertoire, improvisations and original works at Willamette University, the University of Miami and Rice University.

Pezzone performed on the soundtrack of films The Game, The Bucket List, The Kite Runner, Lars and the Real Girl, Flipped, City By the Sea and was the pianist on virtually all of the cartoons released by Warner Brothers and Disney (Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Goof Troop, Bonkers) from 1990-2002.

The Glendale College concert series is funded by a grant from the Glendale College Foundation.