In 1998, Brennan was recruited to direct the classical music department of the All Media Guide - a post he held until 2004. Soon afterward, Brennan also began reviewing concerts for The Ann Arbor News. That booklet was eventually expanded and published as Classical Records, Starting Your Collection (and Books, South Bend, 1984). Brennan produced about 20 concerts and conducted the highly successful North American premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Für kommende Zeiten at the Detroit Institute of Art.īrennan's career as a writer started in 1984 when he wrote and self-published a booklet on starting a classical record collection. During that time, Sinewave Studios and its offshoot Twice Festivals were leading force in new music. In 1980 Brennan organized the Ann Arbor-based Sinewave Studios for the development and propagation of new art music. He produced hundreds of weekly programs in his decade there - including The Musical Theatre, New Music, New Releases, From the Monophonic Era, Music of Our World, Excursions, and Nocturne. His first radio job was with Michigan Radio and the National Public Radio affiliates WUOM, WVGR, and WFUM, based at the University of Michigan. In 1978 Brennan married Patricia McInerney, with whom he went to high school.īrennan is primarily a composer and pianist, but he has also worked as a radio producer, author, and journalist. Believing that he could not be taught as a composer, he chose not to attend college.

The eldest of six children, he went to Catholic school, graduating in 1971. At age two he moved to Dearborn, MI, where he lived with his family until his late teens. Composer Gerald Brennan was born on September 2, 1953, in Jessup, PA.

Jophiel by Gerald Brennan