The Brandee Younger Trio at All Saints' Episcopal Church

Jazz at All Saints’ Presents Brandee Younger Trio
March 13, 2026

On Friday, March 13, the extraordinarily gifted young jazz harpist Brandee Younger will lead her trio in a performance in the Jazz at All Saints’ Concert Series. Acclaimed for revolutionizing the harp’s role in modern music, Brandee is a recent recipient of a $525,000 Doris Duke Artist Award, recognizing her as an artist who plays a “singular role in enriching life and enlivening society.”

As a composer as well as a performer, Brandee builds on her classical training with the rhythmic soulfulness of R&B and hip-hop. In 2022 she made history by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, and in 2024 she won an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Jazz Album for her album, Brand New Life....

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Jazz at All Saints’ Presents Brandee Younger Trio
March 13, 2026

On Friday, March 13, the extraordinarily gifted young jazz harpist Brandee Younger will lead her trio in a performance in the Jazz at All Saints’ Concert Series. Acclaimed for revolutionizing the harp’s role in modern music, Brandee is a recent recipient of a $525,000 Doris Duke Artist Award, recognizing her as an artist who plays a “singular role in enriching life and enlivening society.”

As a composer as well as a performer, Brandee builds on her classical training with the rhythmic soulfulness of R&B and hip-hop. In 2022 she made history by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, and in 2024 she won an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Jazz Album for her album, Brand New Life.

While her music is about forging new paths—artistic, personal, political, and spiritual—Brandee is especially noted for continuing the legacy of the women who ushered in the harp as a distinct voice in jazz, particularly Detroit natives Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. She is now the custodian of Coltrane’s harp, which she played in a recent Carnegie Hall concert. Brandee has worked with other cultural icons, including Common, Lauryn Hill, John Legend, Pharoah Sanders, the Roots, and Christian McBride. Her original composition “Hortense” was featured in the Netflix Concert-Documentary Beyonce: Homecoming. Her third album, Gadabout Season, includes original works evoking our shared search for joy—our search “for meaning and beauty amid life’s most complex moments.”

In addition to performing and recording, this celebrated young artist is a dedicated educator, teaching at both New York University and The New School College of Performing Arts.

The March 13th Jazz at All Saints’ Concert takes place in the sanctuary of All Saints’ Episcopal Church beginning at 7:00 p.m. It will be followed by a Q&A with Jazz at All Saints’ Artistic Director Virginia Schenck and a reception in the Parish House. Concert tickets are $25/adult and $15/student. They can be purchased at https://allsaintsatlanta.org/music/jazz-at-all-saints//

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