"Each time I've heard harpist Brandee Younger in Portland since 2016, she glows brighter as a musician and more sure-footed as a performer. Whether playing her beloved fellow harpist the late Alice Coltrane 's tunes or her own compositions, she is an innovative guide of the harp's journey, history and music. She's a master player of the huge awkward beautiful instrument."
"She typically plays in such intimate venues as TOC or Classic Pianos while in Portland, though at the 2025 Biamp PDX Jazz "Translinear Light" concert, named for Alice Coltrane's 2004 album produced by saxophonist son Ravi Coltrane, she performed at the 880-seat Newmark Theatre. The size of the performance space doesn't appear to matter in Portland for a Younger concert; she is almost always a sell-out,"
Brandee Younger has grown more luminous and confident as a harpist and performer in Portland since 2016. She interprets Alice Coltrane's music and her own compositions with innovation, tracing the harp's journey and history. The harp presents technical challenges with a complex pedal system that alters pitch across 47 strings and requires independent hand patterns. Younger visually encoded those patterns in her two-tone concert outfit. The instrument is difficult to transport and tune, yet Younger reaches genre-blending mastery, teaches at New York University and The New School, and draws sell-out audiences in both intimate and larger theaters.
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