Episode 21: Brad Bietry

Brad Bietry is a jazz pianist/composer/producer/songwriter/jazz piano teacher based out of Nashville, TN.   Brad was born and raised in Lima, Ohio. He has studied at Berklee College Music, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory Of Music and Denver University studying jazz piano, composition, and arranging.  He started touring at the age of nineteen with The Continental Singers and Brass, The Spurrlows, Carnival, Princess, and Norwegian Cruise Lines.  While at Berklee, he won the 1997 Berklee Jazz Pianist Award.  

Brad moved to Orlando, FL in 1998 and worked at several large churches as pianist/arranger/orchestra leader, and performed in different groups all over FL. Brad toured internationally with well-known Praise & Worship leader Ron Kenoly as his Musical Director/Keyboardist/Arranger in 2002. In 2003, he won an audition to join the USAF Academy Band in Colorado Springs as the pianist for The Falconaires Jazz Ensemble performing all over the U.S.  He has extensive recording experience with the USAF, and under his own name.  He has performed in prestigious concert halls all over the world including Carnegie Hall in NYC, and Royal Albert Hall in London. Brad has performed with Joe Walsh, Kevin Mahogany, John Fedchock, Mike Davis from the Rolling Stones, Sandy Patty, Wayne Watson, Scott Wesley Brown, Dennis Jernigan, and jazz artists such as The New York Voices, James Moody, and many others.

Brad’s 2017 single, “I Don’t Wanna Live Without You Today,” and albums “Speak Like A Bostonian,” ”The Quest,"  and “Skylark,” are available for purchase on his website, www.bradbietry.com. 

Brad Bietry

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University of Cincinnati | College Conservatory of Music

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