Bryan Young's playing dances with a lightness and grace uncommon for his instrument—The Washington Post
About Bryan Young
Bryan tours the US and internationally as bassoonist and co-founder of the Poulenc Trio. Bryan serves as the principal bassoonist of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. Bryan studied at the Peabody Conservatory with Linda Harwell and at Yale with Frank Morelli. Bryan has performed as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra. The Washington Post writes that his playing "dances with a lightness and grace uncommon for his instrument,' and the Baltimore Sun has praised his "particularly beautiful playing, technical agility and understated elegance.'
As a musical collaborator and chamber musician, Bryan has toured and performed with violinist Hilary Hahn, clarinetists Alexander Fiterstein, Anthony McGill, and David Shifrin, soprano Hyunah Yu, Guggenheim-winning poet Lia Purpura, and appeared with legendary jazz-leader Cab Calloway in his final performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Bryan has premiered new works written for him by composers Megan DiGeorgio, Octavio Vazquez, Steven Gerber, Thomas Benjamin and David Fetter, in addition to more than 30 new works he co-commissioned and premiered with the Poulenc Trio. Recently, Bryan was selected by the International Double Reed Society to premiere To Earth by composer Roydon Tse, a work commissioned to celebrate the organization's 50th anniversary.
Bryan is on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory, and has served on the faculty at Morgan State University. He has been invited as featured lecturer and given masterclasses and workshops at Peabody, NYU, Princeton, Tulane, Loyola University, Ohio State University, Rutgers, Brigham Young University, University of Texas, University of Arizona, University of Georgia, University of Kentucky, San Francisco State University, Regents University, MD Institute College of Art (MICA), and Towson University. He is a recipient of the Yale Alumni Ventures Grant and the UNCF Award for Excellence.
In addition to his musical activities, Bryan founded Intertwine Systems, a healthcare focused software company. At Intertwine, Bryan was featured on the front page of the Baltimore Business Journal as a “mobile software entrepreneur to watch”. As a technologist, Bryan worked with the State of Maryland in collaboration with the University of Maryland and the Alvin Toffler Institute to develop iPad-based software for cardiologists, and with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in conjunction with the government of Trinidad and Tobago to develop new research tools for endocrinologists. Bryan served as a partner at SailTime, a global recreational sailing company, chief technologist at JobJybe, an Austin-based startup focused on business communications, and as Director of Connected Healthcare Solutions for Asymmetrik, a Maryland-based software company. Most recently, Bryan served as Principal Group Leader for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare at MITRE, and is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Expel, a leading U.S. cybersecurity company.
Bryan writes a newsletter on the intersection of technology and the arts, called Code and Context.
Bryan is the Board Chair of Chamber Music America, President of the Board of the Chamber Music Maryland, and a board member at the Boulanger Initiative. He is a frequent guest commentator on Maryland's WBJC-FM radio show, Face the Music.
Recordings featuring Bryan Young
