Brett L. Wery

Phone: (518) 580-5320
Email: brettwery@record-room.com
Office:  Zankel Music Center 324

Brett L. Wery is an active composer/arranger in the Capital Region area of upstate New York. He is the Music Director/Conductor of the Capital Region Wind Ensemble in Schenectady, NY and composer/editor for Sonata Grendel Publishing in Scotia, NY. He is also instructor of clarinet at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. For twenty-five years he taught theory, conducting, and applied woodwind studies at the State University of New York, Schenectady County Community College where he also directed the college wind ensemble. As a professor at SUNY Schenectady, Wery has been the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and the SCCC Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching. Wery later served as dean of the School of Music at SUNY Schenectady before retiring from academic administration to pursue composition and conducting full time. 

An award-winning member of ASCAP and SCI, Wery’s compositions have been performed and recorded around the world and include Sonata for Guitar Quartet, Variants and Strains for Flute Quintet, Oot-kwa-tah for chamber orchestra, The Pedesterra Cycle for Soprano, Baritone, and Woodwind Quintet, and Sonata for Multiple Woodwinds and Piano. Wery’s 2013 String Quartet was the 2021 Grand Prize winner of the Classic Pure Vienna International Music Competition. In addition to composing and conducting, Wery is an active woodwind doubler—performing on flute, clarinet, and saxophone.

Mr. Wery received his bachelor’s degree at the North Carolina School of the Arts and his Master’s Degree at the University of Denver.

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