Biography
Dr. Brittany J. Green (she/her) (b. 1991) is a North Carolina-based composer and performance artist. Described as “a creative force of attention-seizing versatility” (The Washington Post) and “cinematic in the best sense” (Chicago Classical Review), Brittany's music works to facilitate collaborative, intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses. The intersections between sound, video, movement, and text serves as the focal point of these musical spaces, often questioning and redefining the relationships between these three elements. Recent works engage sonification and black feminist theory as tools for sonic world-building, exploring the construction, displacement, and rupture of systems. Brittany’s research and creative interests include contextualizing the work of Julius Eastman through the lens of queer and critical race theory.
Her music has been featured worldwide including performances at Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, the World Saxophone Congress, Symphony Center, and New York City Electronic Music Festival. Her work has been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, JACK Quartet, Composers Now, Karen Slack, and Rebekah Heller. She has held residencies with the Louisville Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Copland House, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Highlights of the 2026-27 season include a fellowship with Beethovenfest culminating in the European premiere of gLitched dreams//invisible BEINGS by Alarm Will Sound, commercial releases with Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra (TESTIFY!), Rebekah Heller (Righteous Rage), Daniel Schreiner (bluedream), and American Composers Orchestra (Letters to America and Rencontres), performances at NCMEA (Final Exam— world premiere; Freedom 2040), and new works for Lexington Philharmonic, Jasper Quartet, FryStreet Quartet, and Janghyun Kim with the ECU Wind Ensemble.
Brittany’s music has been awarded the Alarm Will Sound Matt Marks Impact Fund (2023), American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Charles Ives Scholarship (2022), ASCAP Foundation’s Morton Gould Award (2021), and New Music USA’s Creator Development Grant (2021). She holds a BM in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a MM in Music Composition and Theory from East Carolina University, and a Ph.D in Music Composition from Duke University. In her free time, Brittany enjoys reading poetry, watching basketball, video games, and spending time in front of the bonfire.
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Dr. Brittany J. Green (she/her) is a North Carolina-based composer and performance artist. Her music facilitates intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses at the intersection of sound, video, movement, and text. Recent works engage sonification and Black feminist theory as tools for sonic world-building, exploring the construction, displacement, and rupture of systems. Green’s artistic practice includes spoken and electronic performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, experiential projects, and acoustic and electroacoustic chamber and large ensemble works. Her music has been featured at Beethovenfest, TIME:SPANS, NYC Electronic Music Festival, and World Saxophone Congress, and has been performed by the American Composer's Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. Her collaborators include Karen Slack, Rebekah Heller, Alarm Will Sound, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and JACK Quartet. Brittany holds awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP Foundation, and New MusicUSD, and recently completed her Ph.D in Music Composition from Duke University.