Brynn Albanese Biography 

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Brynn Albanese has celebrated a career spanning almost 40 years from California to the East Coast, Europe, Asia and South America. After graduation from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, she was the Concertmaster of the Tanglewood Orchestra under Simon Rattle, Rodger Norrington and Seiji Ozawa. For eight years she enjoyed playing, touring, and recording with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Ozawa and The Boston Pops under John Williams and Keith Lockhart before moving further east in 1998 to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, Brynn played with the Philharmonic of The Hague under the baton of former New York Philharmonics conductor, Jaap Van Zweeden. She traveled the span of Europe participating in various chamber music festivals and performed with orchestras.

 

After a rich experience all around, she decided to return full circle to California in 2006 to be close to home. Upon returning, Brynn enjoyed being Concertmaster of the Monterey Symphony, Principal Second Violin of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra under Marin Alsop and performing under Scott Yoo in the Festival Mozaic Orchestra. She also delved into a passion for World Music when she joined the ensemble, Café Musique in 2008 and has performed all over California and in Europe. They quickly became a sensation and delighted audiences over and over again. In the spring of 2020, and at the start of the Pandemic, they officially closed their doors after fifteen wonderful years. In 2018, Brynn became the Founder/Artistic Director of “Cambria Concerts Unplugged”, an acoustic music series taking place currently at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, a 100-seat venue in Cambria, CA. The Concerts are once a month 9 months of the year and often are sold out. Cambria Concerts Unplugged is becoming widely recognized as one of the only “listening room” series of its kind in the area and beyond, hosting a wide variety of groups that cover all genres. 

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Early in the pandemic period of 2020, Albanese created a mobile outdoor-indoor One-Woman-Show. Performing curbside, in driveways, cul-du-sacs, medians, backyards and front yards as well as venues from California to Alaska and beyond. During the Pandemic, she also began  working with the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education on an online series called, “Exploring the World Through Music with Brynn Albanese.” Designed for kids of all ages as well as adults. This series has become so popular, she is now currently taking it into the school assembly program. Brynn went back to school in 2020 to become a Certified Music Practitioner and End of Life Doula. Brynn offers therapeutic music sessions by the bedside in Hospitals, Skilled Nursing and Memory Care Centers. Her goal is to implement her services as a CMP as an integral part of the daily culture and environment of our local facilities. Therapeutic Music uses the science of sound as complementary care to conventional allopathic medicine, providing one-on-one therapeutic music at the bedside for all kinds of patient conditions to promote improved quality of life during treatment and the healing process.

 

Brynn is also a graduate of the International End of Life Doula Association. She provides support and companionship for the terminally ill and actively dying patient as well as their families in the last months, weeks, days, and hours of life. As of January 2024, Dignity Health South County has hired Brynn parttime as a Certified Music Practitioner. You can find Brynn at Marian Regional Medical Center as her main location, Marian Extended Care Center, Mission Hope Cancer Infusion Center, and Arroyo Grande Hospital. Brynn also has been taken under the wing of Ecolologistics.org, a Non-Profit support company that helps individuals and small companies build and support environmental, economic, and social justice projects. Brynn’s company name, Pneuma Melodies falls into social impact. Ecologistics provides a platform for these projects to receive donations to be able to continue their work. Brynn uses the money raised through Ecologistics to play for the underprivileged, addiction treatment centers, mental health treatment centers, memory care and the developmentally disabled.