Brandee Younger Trio

Brandee Younger is an American harpist who infuses classical, jazz, soul, and funk influences to the harp tradition pioneered by her predecessors and idols Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. 

Brandee was a 2021 GRAMMY Awards®  Nominee for Best Instrumental Composition. 

Younger leads her own ensemble, performs as a soloist and has worked as a sideman for such musicians as Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Bill Lee and Reggie Workman. Younger earned undergraduate degrees in Harp Performance and Music Business from The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. While there, she was mentored by the faculty of the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz and African American Studies. and later joined the harp faculty at the Hartt School. She continued on to receive a master’s degree in Contemporary Performance at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute in 2018. Since 2018, Farayi has been a member of Danilo Perez’s Global Messengers. 

“A leading voice of the harp today, performer, composer, educator, and concert curator Brandee Younger defies genres and labels. She has performed and recorded with artists including Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Common, John Legend, The Roots, Stevie Wonder, and Lauryn Hill.”-NYU/Steinhardt