Brittany J. Green
Brittany J. Green (she/her) is a composer, creative, and educator from North Carolina. Her music facilitates intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses at the intersection of sound, video, movement, and text. Recent works engage sonification and black feminist theory as tools for sonic world-building, exploring the construction, displacement, and rupture of systems. Her artistic practice includes spoken and electronic performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, experiential projects, and acoustic and electroacoustic chamber and large ensemble works.
Her music has been featured at Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW, TIME:SPANS, New York City Electronic Music Festival, Boulanger Initiative’s WoCo Fest, and Experimental Sound Studio. Her collaborators include the Louisville Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, International Contemporary Ensemble, and the JACK Quartet. Brittany has held residencies at Copland House, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP Foundation, and New Music USA.
Highlights of the 2025-2026 season include a residency with the Lexington Philharmonic, collaborations with New York Philharmonic, Jasper Quartet, Oregon Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and premieres at Carnegie Hall with GRAMMY®-Award Winning Singer Karen Slack and the American Composers Orchestra and Tanglewood with poet Aracelis Girmay and violist Ashleigh Gordon.
Brittany holds a PhD in music composition from Duke University.
I wrote this piece at a time where I found myself thinking a lot about what it means to show up for those close to us and the promise we make to those that we love — to hold their hand through the darkest hours, even when it hurts to not look away. This piece is inspired by that promise, the promise to carry each other when we've given all the fight we have left. The promise to see each other through from this plane to the next. The promise to carry each other through the waters of life.