Brendan Fox (b. 1989) is a Chicago-based pianist and composer. He received a Bachelor of Music in Composition and in Piano Performance from Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL, and a Master of Music in Composition from Ithaca College. He has studied composition with Howard Whitaker, David M. Gordon, Shawn Okpebholo, Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann, Dana Wilson, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, and piano with Sung Hoon Mo.

Brendan has performed a lecture-recital of Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata in cities including Chicago, Toronto, and New York City. He has performed as orchestral pianist with the Sheboygan Symphony, and as soloist with the Wisconsin Philharmonic and La Crosse Symphony playing a new transcription of Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals.

Brendan’s compositions have been performed by Tontine Ensemble, Milwaukee Philharmonic, and in a reading with String Noise. He has written some original music for theatre, including for a production of Our Town in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.

Brendan currently works as Classical Publications Manager at Hal Leonard. 

Photo credit: Samer Ghani