Brant Grieshaber
Brant Grieshaber is a Boston-area guitarist, composer, and record producer who leads the experimental fusion group the Ra Quintet and the standards band the Boston Jazz Quartet, as well as playing with Boston saxophonist Daniel Bennett and the rock band the Hopeful Monsters. The Ra Quintet released its first full-length album in March 2009, with 10 original compositions by Grieshaber and an 11th by the band's drummer, Rick Landwehr. The Boston music magazine Metronome likened the band's recordings to those of Steve Morse, Allan Holdsworth, John McLaughlin, and Al DiMeola. Grieshaber is an endorsing artist for Godin guitars and JazzKat amplifiers.
On the Bennett group's 2008 album The Legend of Bear Thompson, Grieshaber plays classical guitar, and with the Bennett group, he has appeared on concert stages with Grammy-award-winning artist Bill Frisell, Zyrah's Orange, and the Charlie Hunter Trio. After hearing Grieshaber play, Frisell is reputed to have said, "Wow, let me see your hands." Grieshaber also gives private guitar lessons and is the owner and founder of the Boston Recording Studio and the Boston Guitar Repair Center in the South End of Boston.
Background
At the age of eight, Grieshaber began studying classical and ragtime piano with Bates College professor Dr. Marion Anderson. At 13, he took up jazz and rock guitar. He earned his BA at Berklee College of Music, studying with Garrison Fewell and Bret Wilmott. At the Boston Conservatory, he did graduate studies in classical composition with Osvaldo Golijov. He has also studied guitar with jazz fusion artist Frank Gambale.