| Biography: | Ms. Brandt moved to the Long Beach, CA area in late 2000 to study music at California State University, Long Beach, where she earned a degree in music composition. Her interest in composition grew out of a love of the great variety of sounds and textures that bring music into being. While attending CSULB, she also studied piano, voice, and conducting. Beata has performed in the dance piece The Evil Garden by Erin Mitchell. The CSULB Studio Orchestra and University String Quartet have performed her compositions. Percussionist, Dave Gerhart, has performed her timpani solo, Flights of Fancy, a work he commissioned. As a member of the CSULB University Choir, she has sung with the Long Beach Symphony, Long Beach Camerata Singers, Pacific Symphony, and Pasadena Pops Orchestra, and recorded for World of Warcraft III. She has also played the piano in the studio orchestra under the baton of Tim Simonec (Diary of Anne Frank, Lost, Alias, The Incredibles), and recorded for student films. Piano performances include chamber music, piano ensemble, accompanying, and student recitals. Beata has played the piano, harpsichord, or celesta as a member of Collegium Musicum, Studio Orchestra, and New Music Ensemble. She continues to perform contemporary and classical works as a pianist, vocalist, and conductor. Beata has worked as a piano teacher, vocal coach, and church music director and has most recently appeared in the music video "On the Outside" for the band "Kill the Complex".
Beata Brandt began playing the piano and singing in choir at a very early age while growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Already while in high school, Beata played piano for performances of musicals like Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady and West Side Story. In addition, she played in an award winning high school jazz band that performed with Chris Vadala, woodwind player for Chuck Mangione. Besides studying classical guitar, she performed as an accompanist for many soloists and one of the school choirs. While pursuing a business degree, she continued to study the piano, classical guitar, and composition.
As a composition major, Beata has been awarded the Paul C. Lindsey Memorial Scholarship and the Music Department Talent Scholarship in Music Composition. She has chaired the CSULB College of the Arts (COTA) Student Council and CSULB Composers Guild. As an officer in the Composers Guild, Beata coordinated two concerts of composition students’ works. As chair of the College of the Arts Council, she oversaw the inaugural COTA student and faculty mixer. She is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society, and Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity. Beata speaks Polish and Spanish, and sings in Polish, Spanish, Hebrew, Latin, French, Italian, and German.
Ms. Brandt lives in the greater Los Angeles area.
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