Brianna Jaeger
Virginia
Hailed by critics as “effective, clear, and brilliantly controlled” and a “confident, skilled performer”, Brianna is a pianist, avant-garde specialist, and Holocaust musicology scholar currently located near Washington, DC.
After receiving recognition from PBS at the age of 12, she has appeared across the globe as a soloist and collaborator, featuring performances at Carnegie Hall - Stern Auditorium, The Kaufman Music Center, Schladming-Dachstein, Schlosskirche Cathedral, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Contemporary Art Music Project, and with ensembles EDGE and Alarm Will Sound. Her musical endeavors have led to three international awards in the 2021-2022 season, followed by appearances in New York City and Toronto.
Brianna obtained her Master of Music from Shenandoah Conservatory, where she studied under Ieva Jokubaviciute and Dr. Alexander Bernstein, with whom she continues to study. Brianna received her undergraduate degree in piano from The Horton School of Music, where she studied piano under Eugene Koester, Dr. Brad Parker, and orchestral conducting under Dr. Nicholas V. Holland, III. Other influential educators have included Dr. Richard Pressley, Mark Sterbank, Graeme Burgan, and Olivia Cresswell.
During her collegiate studies, Brianna was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda, the National Honor Society for Music, and Alpha Chi, for academic excellence and research. Her graduate research featured her master’s thesis on Beethovenian elements in Schubert’s piano sonatas, the implications of the Holocaust on György Ligeti’s etudes, philosophical influences on musical form, and transcribing masses into modern notation. She is currently reconstructing music written during the Holocaust and crafting a biography on the lives of the composers, a project for which she was a Fulbright Alternate Scholar. Brianna is currently a professor at Charleston Southern University and The Catoctin School of Music, where she teaches general music, keyboard instruments, composition, and directs choral ensembles.