French horn
player, flugelhornist, and teacher from
Albuquerque, New Mexico, who cut his teeth with the Albuquerque Youth
Symphony and went on to attend the California Institute of the Arts, from
whence he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.His career as a session musician
took off in 1974, when he performed on the soundtrack of the television programme, Executive
Suite.He went on to
perform on The Academy Awards, The
Carol Burnett Show, The Emmys, The Miss America Pageant, The People's
Choice Awards, and the soundtracks of Fantasy
Island, Hawaii Five-O, The Love Boat, Star Trek:Deep Space
Nine, Star Trek:Enterprise, Star Trek:The Next
Generation, Star Trek:Voyager, and Taken.Brian was not, however, confined to the
TV set.He has performed on
over one thousand film soundtracks, including all of the Austin Powers
movies, The Bourne Supremacy, Collateral Damage, The Day after Tomorrow, Elektra, Flags of Our Fathers, The
Glass House, Hairspray
(2007), The Incredibles,
Jurassic Park, King Kong (2005), The Lion King, Matrix Revolutions, National
Treasure, Out of Africa, The Princess Diaries, The Rock, Spiderman-2, Titanic,
Under the Tuscan Sun, The Village, War of the Worlds, X2:X-Men United, and Zathura.His experience certainly does not
stop on the big screen.Brian
has performed for a number of Broadway musicals, including Phantom of the Opera and Sweeney Todd.He has recorded with Christina
Aguilera, Michael Bolton, Harry Connick, Jr.,
Neil Diamond, Danny Elfman, Jose Feliciano, Dave Grusin, James Newton Howard, The Isley
Brothers, Johnny Mathis, Neil Norman, Prince, Lionel Richie, Frank Sinatra,
and Thomas Talbert.On top of
all of his recording work, Brian has served as President of the Recording
Musicians Association, and has also done turns on the Executive Board of
the International and L.A. chapters of the Recording Musicians Association,
and the election board of Local 47, the Los Angeles musicians union.Orchestras with which he has worked
include the American Ballet Theater Orchestra, the Glendale Symphony, the
Hollywood Studio Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Los
Angeles Opera Repertory Theater Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, and the
Pasadena Symphony.On 13th
December 2004, Brian underwent surgery for a low-grade, egg-sized brain
tumor.It did not keep him out
of commission for long:He
returned to work in a little over a month.In addition to performing, Brian
also teaches at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and has served as a
clinician with the Texas Bandmasters Association.
