Violinist Colleen Brannen has enjoyed a distinguished and varied career as an orchestral and
chamber musician. She has held positions in The New Haven and Portland Symphonies and as
assistant concertmaster of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony under Gustav Meier. She appears
regularly with many Boston area ensembles, including Back Bay Chorale, Boston Modern
Orchestra Project, Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Odyssey Opera, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
and Rhode Island Philharmonic. Colleen is a founding member of the Craft Ensemble, a string
quartet highlighting female composers of the past and present. She has appeared as a soloist
with the New England Classical Singers and recorded with various ensembles on the Naxos,
BMOP/Sound and Cantaloupe labels. With BMOP, Colleen played on the Grammy winning
opera album of 2019, Fantastic Mr. Fox. She holds degrees from Rice University, where she
studied with Kenneth Goldsmith, and New England Conservatory, where she studied with
James Buswell.