

Brenda Greggio is a jazz pianist, composer, and vocalist from San Diego who is now based in New York City.
She graduated from the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, where she majored in Jazz Studies, and later earned a degree in Jazz Piano from the Manhattan School of Music, studying under acclaimed pianist Ted Rosenthal.
Brenda began studying classical piano at the age of four with Ms. Tanya Djangirov. At eight, she discovered jazz and began taking jazz piano lessons, studying with Philip Jay Lim, Gilbert Castellanos, Kamau Kenyatta, Danny Green, Dr. John Reynolds, Katie Thiroux, and Lee Secard.
She was a student at the Young Lions Jazz Conservatory in San Diego and the Colburn Music School in Los Angeles.
A highly accomplished musician from an early age, Brenda received two National YoungArts Foundation Awards as a teenager. She was selected twice to participate in the Monterey Jazz Festival's Women in Jazz program and earned both Outstanding Composition and Outstanding Arrangement honors in the DownBeat Student Music Awards (SMA), among many other distinctions.
Brenda was also one of the select global scholarship recipients of the Sony Music Group Global Scholars Program, an initiative created to support and educate the next generation of music leaders around the world.
Past Events
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Smalls, Jazz Club, NYC
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Museum of Making Music, Carlsbad
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The Jazz Station, Eugene, OR
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The Rady Shell, San Diego, CA
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64th Monterey Jazz Festival
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63rd Monterey Jazz Festival
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The Monterey Next Gen Jazz Festival
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Estéban at Casa Munras -Monterey, CA
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Dizzy's San Diego, CA
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The Jazz Lounge, San Diego, CA
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Catalina Jazz Club, Los Angeles,CA
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Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA
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Plaza Bar, The Westgate Hotel · San Diego
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Dizzy's Club NYC
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Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
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Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego
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Panama 66, SAN DIEGO
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Summer Nights by the Bay, San Diego
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Balboa Theater
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Madison on Park, San Diego
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Organ Pavillion, San Diego
Accomplishments and Awards
Downbeat SMA 2022
Outstanding Composition Winner
Downbeat SMA 2022
Outstanding Arrangement Winner
Downbeat SMA 2022
Outstanding Performance
With New Soil Ensemble
2022 National YoungArts Foundation Merit Winner for Jazz Piano.
2021 National YoungArts Foundation Honorable Mention Winner in Jazz: Composition.
Next Generation Women in Jazz 2020, 2021
Downbeat Magazine, NEW SOIL ENSEMBLE
Young Lions Jazz Conservatory
Small Jazz Combo 2020, 2021
Downbeat Magazine, Monday Night Class (Asynchronous Ensemble)
Colburn School 2021
Monterey Jazz Next Generation - 3rd place
New Soil Ensemble - 2019
Outstanding Soloist award University of Las Vegas "Essentially Ellington"
SW Regional Festival in January 2019.
Finalists at the Essentially Ellington Competition - Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC in 2019