Darryl Brenzel Group

First and foremost you can expect to hear truly world-class jazz. A great mix of songs from Broadway, Movies, jazz greats, Bossa novas and potentially some pop tunes done in a jazz style. This music is tailored to not only the audience but the specific event. Do you want us in the background while you converse? We can keep it soft and mellow. Are we there to entertain? We can kick it up a notch. Do people want to dance? We can swing folks right out onto the floor.

We can tailor our set lengths and times to suit the schedule of your event. We can set up in minimal space. And we can make your event memorable by providing a uniquely American style of music.

Darryl Brenzel Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, Educator
Darryl Brenzel is a saxophonist, composer, arranger and educator residing in Frederick and working in the greater Baltimore/DC area. His current musical pursuits include teaching jazz saxophone at Towson University and Gettysburg College and jazz arranging at Shenandoah University, leading his own jazz trio, quartet and quintet, performing as a free-lance woodwind player and arranging music for numerous professional and college bands throughout the country.

Performer
Brenzel's career as a performer runs the gamut from working with small groups to big bands to symphony orchestras. He currently leads his own jazz trio and quartet which has performed in venues in DC, Baltimore and New York City to include The Kennedy Center, Blues Alley and The East Coast Jazz Festival. He has also performed in pops concert with The National Symphony Orchestra, The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Pops, The Pittsburgh Pops, The Cincinnati Pops and others. From (phone number hidden)8 Brenzel was a member of The US Army Jazz Ambassadors where he served as saxophone soloist, chief arranger and eventually associate director. In 2008 Brenzel was recognized by The Maryland State Arts Council with an Individual Artist Award in solo instrumental performance. Brenzel's career as a performer have taken him around the world with performances throughout North America, India, Japan and Europe. He has appeared at major jazz festivals to include Montreaux, The North Sea Jazz Festival, The Newport Jazz Festival, The Nice Jazz Festival and The Jacksonville Jazz Festival. He has performed with such artists as The Beach Boys, Chris Isaak, Little Anthony, The Drifters, Jerry Butler, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, The Nelson Riddle Orchestra and many others.
Composer & Arranger
Brenzel had his first formal studies in this field while attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. Further self directed studies continued through numerous texts on the subject. That hard work payed off with a place in the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop in NYC from (phone number hidden)5. Here Brenzel further honed his skills by working side by side with such world renowned and Grammy winning composers as Maria Schneider, Michael Abene and Jim McNeely. In 2007 he won an Individual Artist Award from The MD State Arts Council for music composition. During his time with The Jazz Ambassadors Brenzel put more than 70 works into their book and had pieces recorded on five of their CDs. Brenzel's largest body of work is for big band but he has also done work for concert band, sax quartet, clarinet quartet, 11 piece jazz band, jazz choir, jazz quintet and sextet, and voice with violins. His most recent project, arranging and re-orchestrating Stravinsky's "Rite Of Spring" for jazz orchestra has received with much critical praise.
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Our technical requirements are minimal. We provide our own sound when needed. We would only require sound to be provided for very large events/concerts in large rooms (500+)