Accomplishments and Awards
Past Events
Brenda Greggio is a San Diego based Jazz /pianist/ musician/composer/singer.
She graduated from The San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts with a major in Jazz studies. She now studies at The Manhattan School of Music as a jazz Piano studies major, with two merit scholarships, one of which is from Sony Music Group.
Brenda began studying classical piano when she was 4, with Ms. Tanya Djangirov.
When she turned 8, she started taking jazz piano lessons. She has been studying Jazz for years with Gilbert Castellanos, Kamau Kenyatta, Irving Flores, Philip Jay Lim, Danny Green, Dr. John Reynolds, Robert Dove, Katie Thiroux and Lee Secard.
She was a student of the Young Lions Jazz Conservatory -New Soil Ensemble- in San Diego and of the Colburn School in Los Angeles -Thursday Night Class-
-
Museum of Making Music, Carlsbad
-
The Rady Shell, San Diego, CA
-
64th Monterey Jazz Festival
-
63rd Monterey Jazz Festival
-
The Monterey Next Gen Jazz Festival
-
Estéban at Casa Munras -Monterey, CA
-
Dizzy's San Diego, CA
-
The Jazz Lounge, San Diego, CA
-
Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA
-
Plaza Bar, The Westgate Hotel · San Diego
-
Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
-
Swing 46 Jazz Club. 349 West, 46th Street, New York
-
Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego
-
Panama 66, SAN DIEGO
-
Summer Nights by the Bay, San Diego
-
Balboa Theater
-
Madison on Park, San Diego
-
Organ Pavillion, San Diego
Workshops
-UCSD 2016 led by Holly Hofmann
-UCSD 2017 led by Anthony Davis
-UCSD 2018 led by Matt Wilson/Mark Dresser
-Stanford 2019 led by Anat Cohen
-Berklee 2020 Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, workshop led by Terri Lyne Carrington
-YLJC 2020 led by Helen Sung
-Cojac 2021 led by Gerald Clayton/Sam Hirsh
-Quincy Jones 2021 led by Sam Hirsh
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