Brian Marsella Trio

Brian Marsella Is An Emerging Artist In The Improvised Music Community. He Learned Music By Ear At Age Three From Listening To His Father An Amateur Jazz Musician Play The Saxophone And Vibraphone. At Five Marsella Started To Study Classical Piano And Gave His First Public Performance. At Age Eleven He Had His First Professional ‘gig’. Throughout His Teen Years Marsella Performed Extensively Around The Philadelphia Are In A Myriad Of Settings. A Friendship With Bassist Lance Walker Opened Him To The World Of R&B Flues Funk And Fusion. He Started Collaborating With The Dukes Of Destiny The Elgins And Countless Others. While Doing Club Dates At Night And Weddings On The Weekends The Pianist Kept Up His Classical Education – Having Started With Private Lessons He Continued Piano Studies At Juilliard School And Peabody Conservatory And Composition At Westminster Choir College. After A Year Hiatus From Music He Received His BFA In Jazz Performance From The New School Jazz And Contemporary Music Program In New York. Since 2000 Marsella Has Been Busy A Performing And Recording Artist Playing Around The World With Some Of The World’s Finest Musicians. He Has Been A Member Of Brazilian Percussionist Cyro Baptista’s Band Beat The Donkey. The Two Musicians Have Collaborated In Forming The Band Vira Loucos The Debut Album Of Which Is About To Be Released. The Pianist Has Given Over 300 Shows In The US And Canada Recorded Two Albums With Caveman Has Also Toured With Tzadik Recording Artist Eyal Maoz’s Edom. The Keyboardist Has Collaborated With Billy Martin G. Calvin Weston Marshall Allen Odean Pope Dave Fiuczynski Anat Cohen Byard Lancaster Jamaladeen Tacuma Mary Halvorson Briggan Kraus Stephen Bernstein Jon Madof And Groups Mad Cow Big Tree Leana Song Pharoah’s Daughter UB313 Chris Tunkle Band Circuit Breaker Mother Of All Bombs Brentwood Estates Exoskeleton And Group Therapy. read less