Anne Bryant

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Anne Bryant is a composer, arranger and producer of music for television, advertising and film. She started music at an early age, picking out melodies on her godmothers piano. Her godmother's neighbour, the Ragtime Pianist, Eubie Blake who helped to nurture her talent, Anne writing her first tune at the age of four. A year later, the 5 year old Anne Bryant got into the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the prodigy program and received her first piano from her mother. At the age of 10, she began studying jazz piano and songwriting seriously, hoping to become an arranger, she began hanging out in recording studios to watch the sessions. At the age of 11, she contacted her favorite arranger, Peter Matz who had an office in New York and told him she wished to become an Arranger and would like to watch him work in the recording studio. He agreed and the first session she watch as the recording of Barbra Streisand's first album. She soon became the gofer at Peter and Barbra's sessions, during that time, meeting Harold Arlen, the songwriter behind Over The Rainbow and other hits, and Liza Minelli who let her write some arrangements for her and later introduced her to Judy Garland. Bryant made a lot connections during this time, concurrantly attending the New York City High School of Music & Art where she wrote for the Jazz Band. She did her undergraduate studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where she studied with Manny Albam and Rayburn Wright, in the third or fo

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