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Brian Pardo

Brian Pardo was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has a B.A. in Music Theory and Composition from Haverford College (Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors in Music), an M.A. in Music Composition from Mills College, and a teaching credential in Secondary School Music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He studied guitar with Pat Martino, Allen Hanlon, Tuck Andress, and Fred Frith.

Mr. Pardo's jazz performance credits include work with Jack McDuff, Stan Getz, Eddie Harris, Charles McPherson, Arthur Blythe, Mark Levine, Eddie Henderson, Mundell Lowe, Tony Monaco, Barbara Dennerlein, Eddie Marshall, Donald "Duck" Bailey, Paul Hanson, Chuck Israels, and Paul McCandless.

Non-jazz performance credits include work with Bonnie Raitt, Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, MTV Award winner Coco Lee, Tom Waits, Train, Jaya, The Coasters, The Shirelles, and The Ink Spots.

Mr. Pardo has appeared at the JVC Jazz Festival (NY), the Monterey Jazz Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Clearwater Jazz Festival (FLA), the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Russian River Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, and Zellerbach Hall (Cal Performances).

Mr. Pardo has recorded with Jack McDuff, Chuck Israels, Barbara Dennerlein, Paul Hanson, Claudia Gomez, Phil Klein, and Dave La Febvre. He also arranged and recorded material for the Monterey Jazz Festival Holiday Sampler. Pop recording credits include Coco Lee's 1999 Live album. Mr. Pardo has also appeared on dozens of other albums by a variety of Bay Area artists.

Commercial composition credits include the scoring of music for film, radio and television. Original soundtrack work can be heard on programs produced for PBS, Comedy Central, and ABC Television, and includes a score that Mr. Pardo co-composed for Everyday Heroes, a film by Academy Award nominated director Rick Goldsmith. In his home recording studio, he has produced commercial music for Apple Computers, Levi's Apparel, Summit Medical Center, Kryptonite Sporting Gear, and Dominican Hospital.

Mr. Pardo is the Director of Jazz Studies at the Bentley School (Lafayette, CA), and is on the faculties of the Jazzschool (Berkeley, CA), Mills College (Oakland, CA), and Diablo Valley College (Pleasant Hill, CA). He joined the CSUEB faculty as lecturer of jazz guitar in fall, 2008. Mr. Pardo is Clinician for Yamaha Musical Instruments and Sibelius, and is on the faculties of Jazzcamp West, the Lafayette Summer Music Workshop, and the Jazz Guitar Masters Series.

(9/08)