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Brendan McMullin is an experienced music educator having taught public school music courses since 2003 and college music courses since 2008. Currently he directs the award winning Moorpark College Jazz Ensembles and Wind Ensemble while teaching brass Applied Music majors privately. As a trombonist and vocalist he has shared the stage and/or recorded with artists such as Duffy Jackson, Barry Manilow, Eric Whitacre, Barbara Streisand, Clyde Reasinger, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra; and has performed on stage at the Academy Awards (). He has earned numerous awards for his compositions including the 2014 National Band Association’s Young Composers Jazz Composition Contest where his jazz big band chart, Sal y Pimienta (), was awarded first prize. As a result, the piece was performed at the Kennedy Center by the Airmen of Note. Additionally, Brendan’s composition, Why You Gotta Be Like That (Jazz Overture for Full Orchestra) (), was recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic and included in the album Masterworks of the New Era, Vol. 12, receiving a JPF Award Nomination under the category “Best Classical Orchestral Album.”