Brandee Younger

I just completed an incredible week of music making with Jonathan Batiste at Pearl Studios in midtown.  He is creating the music for a musical, and watching this thing grow from “can you play this line?” last week, to a full blown show of music today was quite an experience.  The amount of talent, passion [...]

This month, I’m really looking forward to hearing the Billy Child’s Ensemble at the Iridium Jazz Club in Times Square, here in NYC.  I’m so excited to hear his genius compositions with such an incredible band working with him, including, harpist, Carol Robbins. About a year ago, while on the phone with Carol, talking about [...]

Posted on the HarpColumn.com, December 2007 About a month ago, I spent the start of my weekend playing with another harpist, for the first graders at a charter School in Brooklyn, New York.  As is often the case, many of them had never before seen a harp, (let alone, 2 at the same time) and [...]

No matter how much research I do beforehand, every now and then, I end up facing a flight of stairs alone. I don’t know if all harpists dread stairs, but I do! Many harpists in NYC don’t mind, because they have harp movers to move their harp, but what about those jobs you have where [...]

We’re not even 2 full weeks into January and looking forward makes it feel like the month is almost over! I rang in the New Year at the Harlem studio, Stadium Red, the homebase of the oh-so-talented producer, Omen (Be sure to get his upcoming album, “Be The Judge” and Not because I’m on it [...]

Sound…it’s a lifetime journey. I have had sound issues for quite some time, because I mostly play an acoustic harp. After struggling with different mics and mic placements, I got a custom pickup made by a bass company. Actually, there were 3 pickups in the harp, not 1. Fast forward to now: I use and [...]

A unique blend of improvised and composed music will be showcased by harpists Brandee Younger, Mia Theodoratus and Riza Hequibal on August 27 at Theater 80 St. Marks. The chic trio announced today that they will demonstrate their talents fusing jazz, classical and world music. These compelling harpists consist of Younger, a soulfully buoyant personality [...]

Now, summer is half over already and most of the weeks have been harp-filled with performances, teaching, big band and recording. While teaching at the Elyrica Harp & Flute Camp, I’m taking this time away from playing the harp to reflect on the past few months, and look forward. This winter, I took a trip [...]

For Immediate Release: Two versatile harpists, Brandee Younger and Megan Sesma, will be showcasing their love for teaching and performing through the Guatemala Harp Teaching Project. February 17-26, the two talented instrumentalists will be volunteering their time to travel to Guatemala to coach and teach master-classes for a short period of time at venues which [...]