biography.Bryan Sanguinito is a published composer currently with C. Alan Publications, Grand Mesa Strings, and T.U.X. People's Music His pieces include “Myth of the Golden Camel” (which was honored as an Editors’ Choice selection by J.W. Pepper), “Starscape”, “No Rest for the Merry”, “Gargantuans”, “Pharaoh’s Tomb”, “Sweet Land (Elusive Liberty)”, “Brazen”, “Blaze of Metal”, “Battle for Redemption”, “The Rise of Rome”, and “Paz y Luz”. Two other compositions, “Westminster Winds” and “Ahuras”, are currently self-published on My Score through J.W. Pepper, where Bryan was named Composer of the Month for March 2024.
Bryan’s music has received world premiere presentations by the American International School in Vienna, Austria, and has been performed at the prestigious Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. A proud Pennsylvania public school teacher and advocate, Bryan has been sharing his love of string orchestra music with students from elementary school through high school since 1997. He currently serves as a middle school orchestra teacher in the Reading (PA) School District, where, since 2003, he has taught string students from grades 4 – 9 in twelve different buildings. Before that, he served for six years as the sole string music instructor in the Nazareth (PA) School District, teaching grades 4 – 12, while developing and establishing the orchestra program there. A cum laude graduate of Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Bryan pursued his post-secondary studies with the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His orchestra students have visited multiple festival sites, including Dorney Park, Six Flags Great Adventure, Hersheypark, Busch Gardens (Williamsburg), and even Disney World. They have been honored at regional festivals, twice winning the highly coveted Music in the Parks™ “Esprit de Corps” award, honoring the student group that best embodies the spirit of the festivals. Bryan has served multiple times as guest conductor for the Berks County Sixth Grade String Orchestra Festival. For the better part of two decades, Bryan advocated for public school students, teachers, and music programs, ultimately becoming a local and regional education association (teachers' union) president, serving on the Pennsylvania State Education Association Board of Directors. He featured student musicians at every in-person event his region hosted, in order to emphasize to guests, legislators, policymakers, and other education professionals the monumental importance, power, and promise of music education in our public schools. Bryan and his wife, Laura, live in Ephrata (PA), and are happy cat parents. They thoroughly enjoy traveling as often as possible (especially to sunny locations), playing trivia, exercising, and discovering new places to visit and foods to try. |