For Good Measure

Miss Gay SF 2024 and Miss Golden Gate 2023, BRENNAN STOKES (b. 1990) is a San Francisco based composer, pianist, teacher, and tenor as well as the Assistant Director of E4TT. He received his Master’s Degree in Music Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and his Bachelor’s in Piano Performance from Pacific Union College. Previous composition mentors include David Garner and Asher Raboy. Stokes enjoys finding ways of expressing his European, Peruvian, and queer identities in his works, alongside other musical stylings. His compositions focus heavily on storytelling and have been described as “transportive”. Within the last few years, he has written music for chorus, strings, voice and piano, and opera utilizing texts from both poets/writers of the past and present, as well as writing original texts.