Lisa Brigantino

Biography

Lisa Brigantino is an award-winning composer, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist working in a variety of genres and styles. She composes music for film, television, theater and more. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music in music theory and music composition from the School of Music at the State University of New York College at Fredonia. Most recently, Lisa composed and performed music for a production of Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s play “An Iliad” which had a run at Shaker Bridge Theatre in Enfield, New Hampshire. Lisa also recently co-produced a new album by Terre Roche (founding member of The Roches) entitled “Kin Ya See That Sun.”

Lisa often works as a music director, sideperson and background singer for various performing artists in the NYC area. She also teaches privately and offers personalized lessons in voice, various instruments, composition, songwriting and music theory.

Lisa has also worked in the business side of the industry for years providing music supervision, licensing, rights clearance, custom scoring and producing as well as consulting services to creatives, producers, composer and musicians via her company, Hidden Pond Productions, Inc.

Lisa’s commercially released albums and singles have received critical acclaim and ‘Round Magazine says of her latest album I’ll Waltz Before I Go, "Nearly every track is a standout…This is a stunner of an album.” John Sobel of Blog Critics says “Lisa Brigantino is what you’d call a complete musician—a superb multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and not least, rocker. Brigantino brings to her songwriting that real sense of melody that so many putative writers lack.”

Lisa was an original member of Lez Zeppelin, the world’s first all girl Led Zeppelin tribute band and toured internationally with the band playing bass, bass pedals, mandolin and keyboards and doing backing vocals at A list venues and festivals around the world including Bonnaroo (US), Rock am Ring/Rock am Park (Germany), Download (UK). She left the band in 2009 to focus on her original music. These days, Lisa often performs her original songs live with her sister Lori Brigantino. They’ve made appearances at a number of notable music conferences and festivals including The New Jersey Folk Festival (Singer/Songwriter Showcase Winner), The Ladybug Music Festival, Folk Alliance, The Florida Music Festival, Maplewoodstock, The Rockland-Bergen Music Festival, Cape May Singer/Songwriter, The Pleasantville Music Festival, The Black Potatoe Festival, The Wellfleet Porchfest. The sisters also have a quirky, self-contained scripted musical-comedy act called “The Vickie & Nickie Show.”

Lisa Brigantino is proud to be a Kurzweil Endorsed Artist. She is a member of SESAC, The Songwriters Guild of America, The International Singer Songwriters Association, Inc., New York Women in Film and Television, Women in Music, Inc. and a voting member of NARAS (The Grammy Awards).  Lisa previously served on the Board of Directors and Advisory Board of Women in Music, Inc. and was a contributing writer and co-editor of the organization’s quarterly magazine, WIM.