BRIAN KAY

Brian Kay is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and a traditional and historical music specialist. He is the Artistic Director of the early music meets early theater group THEATRO, and oversaw their international recording of music from the plays of William Shakespeare. He won a GRAMMY® Award for his work on Apollo's Fire's Songs of Orpheus album. He works as a recording artist for the Netflix music lab and is a featured soloist on the soundtrack of their original series The Witcher and The Decameron. He also created arrangements of Russian folk songs for the Guillermo del Toro film Frankenstein. In the realm of video games, he was a soloist on the soundtrack of No Rest For the Wicked and is currently composing and recording the soundtrack of the upcoming release Dark Ages: Rebellion. He has performed throughout the world at venues such as the National Concert Hall of Dublin, Belfast Castle (Ireland), Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, St. Martin in the Fields (UK), and the Folger Theater. He has recorded with labels Avie and Sono Luminus and has appeared on releases which include original, early music, folk, traditional sephardic, chamber and orchestral. Brian is a founding member of THEATRO and Twa Corbies, and regularly performs with Hesperus, The Folger Consort, Early Music Access Project, and Trio Sefardi. He has most recently appeared with Alchemy Viols, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, and Les Delices.

 

Brian is adjunct faculty for historical plucked instruments at Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University. He has lectured on music and history at Yale University, The Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University, The Folger Theater, The Kennedy Center, and Baldwin-Wallace College. He was Artist in Residence at the Cushman School in Miami and has done outreach for elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges, and prisons across the country.