Brittany Anjou is a NYC based composer, pianist, vibraphonist, multi-instrumentalist, jazz educator and improviser. This versatile and creative performer hails out of Seattle. She has performed solo with everything from Duke Ellington, Bikini Kill, and other greats. Brittany has been performing in jazz ensembles since she was twelve years old. She has performed with Wynton Marsalis and Ernestine Anderson, Clark Terry and Elysian Fields. Anjou’s 1960’s-style jazz piano trio album entitled Enamigo Reciprokataj was released on February 19, 2019. It received great reviews from Downbeat and All About Jazz. They called her a “virtuoso” and her album “highly refined” and the “year’s best debut.” Anjou graduated from New York University in the mentorship of Stefon, Don Friedman and Ralph Alessi. She has continued to work tirelessly in acoustic musical instruments. Anjou was a crucial support musician in mid-2010’s revival 1960s all-girl outr music band, The Shaggs. She also supported Dot Wiggin when she recorded Ready! Get! Go! was released by Alternative Tentacles. Anjou arranges, orchestrates and composes professionally for many artists, including her own ensembles, The Brittany Anjou Trio and L.A.R.C.E.N.Y (25-piece chamber orchestra), Bi TYRANT, (experimetal), Ghanaian Gyil Gala, with Alfred Kpebsaane and BEWAA. These original ensembles feature Ghanaian xylophone. With Alfred Kpebsaane, a Ghanaian master xylophonist, she is currently working on Nong Voru (“Fake love” in Dagara). She is currently a resident at the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Cultural Center in Kuwait. from www.brittanyanjou.com
