John Wolf Brennan

Biography

John Wolf Brennan was born 1954 in Dublin, Ireland. Internationally known as a composer, performer, improvisor, pianist and organist, Brennan has performed his music throughout Europe, Russia, Canada, China, the Ukraine, the USA and Japan. He has has earned worldwide recognition and received many awards, grants and commissions.

Brennan is a member of several international groups including Pago Libre with Arkady Shilkloper (horn, alphorn), Florian Mayer (violin) & Tom Götze (bass); Pilgrims with Tony Majdalani & Marco Jencarelli, Trio Christian Zehnder (voice) & Arkady Shilkloper, Triangulation with Christy Doran (guitars) & Patrice Héral (perc), Sculpted Sound with Magda Vogel (voice), Sooon with Sonja Morgenegg (voice, yodeling) alphorn) & Tony Majdalani (perc, voice), Fluctus with John Voirol (sax, oboe) & Marco Käppeli (dr)

Latest projects: Traumpfade/The Songlines with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (conducted by Kevin Griffiths), got hard LIVE at Alpentöne Festival, Oriental Orbit (with Tony Majdalani), Sooon (with Sonja Morgenegg), Sonic Roots, Tarkus and other love stories, The Speed of Dark (solopiano), Fake Folk (Pago Libre), platzDADA! (Deutscher Schallplattenpreis), Whirligigs (Triangulation), INLAND (die vogelfreien, Zurich)

Lives in Weggis, Lake Lucerne.