NEW ALBUM RELEASED TODAY!
ECHOES OF GRACE: CHORAL WORKS OF PATTI DRENNAN
Many thanks to this amazing team who made this dream possible!!
Producers: Kitt Wakeley; Jonathan M Estabrooks
Co-Producers: Patti Drennan; Emily Drennan Lopez; Christina Giacona
Composer, Arranger, Choral Director: Patti Drennan
Conductor: Michelle Jensen, Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles
Chorus Master: Emily Drennan
Engineers: Patrick Conlon; Christina Giacona
Editing and Mixing: Patrick Conlon; Christina Giacona; Onyx Lane
Orchestra Conductor: Christina Giacona, Onyx Lane Chamber Orchestra
Mastering: Kevin Lively
Assistant Engineers: Chaz Sexton; Chris Prather
Additional Engineers: Ashton Mayle; Zack Copeland
Additional Pro Tools Engineer: Nic Moore
2024 © Studio Seven Media, LLC
Label: Lexicon Classics
Distribution: Symphonic Distribution
Recorded at: EastWest Studios, Studio A, Los Angeles; Timberlake Studio, Purcell, Oklahoma and Pitman Recital Hall, University of Oklahoma
Art Design by: Nathan D. Price Art
Videography by: Matt B and Angela V. Benson
Videography Editing by: Andy Lamon
Special Thanks to: Jim Drennan; Greg Lopez; Brian Byrne; Jeep Jensen; Sarah Sattler; Brian Sidders; and St. Andrew Catholic Church, Pasadena
If you’d like a signed hard copy or more information, you can also visit here: www.pattidrennan.com/echoesofgrace
New Single Released
The first single from the upcoming album, Echoes of Grace, is being released today! This is a choral album featuring Patti’s Drennan’s music and I was the Chorus Master and Co-Producer of it. We hope will enjoy it!
Lux Aeterna Domine is an especially poignant piece as it was the last piece my Dad heard of my Mom’s before the tragedy that occurred in 2022. They were high school sweethearts of 54 years and he loved and heard all of Mom’s compositions. The ethereal and heavenly setting of this a cappella piece is quite moving in tandem with its lyrics:
Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine,
cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis, quia pius es.
May eternal light shine on them, Lord,
with your saints for ever, for you are good.
Give them eternal rest, Lord,
and may light perpetual shine upon them, for you are good
That's a wrap at EastWest Studios! All the recording and now the mixing is complete!
Recording, Recording and The Recording Academy
The Choral Crew
New Choral Album headed your way in August 2024…
L-R: Christina Giacona (Co-Producer, Engineering), Michelle Jensen (Conductor), Patti Drennan (Co-Producer, Choral Director, Composer, Arranger), Emily Drennan (Co-Producer, Choral Master)
Something exciting is brewing...#EastWestStudios #newmusic
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International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist
Jameson and I for Lime and Lou
Love getting to sing with the Jacksonville Symphony during the winter!!
NPR Radio show
Recently, I was able to do a radio interview discussion my musical career, family and meaningful projects for the NPR/PBS Lakeshore Public Media program, “ART ON THE AIR”
HIMA Best Singer-Songwriter 2023 Winner!
Incredibly honored to have won this award for the song so special to me, “I Know Your Name”.
NJ concerts
Always a joy to make music with my Mama!!
LIT Gold Award Winner
Very thankful the song, “I Know Your Name” is resonating with hearts.
Delighted to have won a Global Music Awards Silver Award for “I Know Your Name”!!
I am so very honored to know this song is resonating with hearts and know Dad would be, too.
I WON!!! I won for Best Singer-Songwriter for “I Know Your Name” for the Hollywood Independent Music Awards!! I am incredibly honored!! I wasn’t able to attend the ceremony last night, but got this photo thanks to incomparable Kitt Wakeley!
Thank you foremost to the ultimate Creator who promises everything one day will be made right. Thank you so very much for the HIMA Awards Voting Academy and the amazing musicians and collaborators who made the vision of this song come to life.
While accolades and awards are humbling and fantastic, I would give every one of them away to have one more minute with my Dad on this side of heaven; but, I know he is honored to know this song speaks to his profound legacy. 🤍
INCREDIBLY honored to be nominated for the awards below for writing a song that is so very dear to me. xx
-Hollywood Independent Music Awards: Singer-Songwriter for “I Know Your Name”
-Josie Music Awards: Multi-Genre Vocalist of the Year
-Josie Music Awards: Multi-Genre Song of the Year
-UK International Songwriting Contest Semi-Finalist for “I Know Your Name”
Amazing time had at Bravo Vail! singing with the incredible Dallas Symphony Orchestra!!
**Showtime with the Dayton Philharmonic**
Thank you, OHIO!!
One year. One year today without being able to call my Dad and hear his wisdom, his wit or his advice. 365 days without hearing his laugh or seeing his delight in me, for my Mom or for my children. 525,600 minutes wishing I had one more minute with him. It is just as surreal today.
Because of the recklessness of another, my healthy and vibrant father was tragically killed. Instead of flying home to celebrate my son’s first birthday, my Mom’s birthday and my own birthday, we planned a memorial service for the best man I have ever known.
I wrote the song, “I Know Your Name” in homage to him and to this experience. Many people in this world have experienced sudden grief and loss and perhaps it can bring comfort to other hurting hearts. I am specifically releasing this song today-on this first anniversary, April 5th, 2023 - in order to have a say and in order be exactly what my Dad taught us to be..
Proceeds of this song will go to the James S. Drennan Memorial Orchestra Scholarship fund where my Dad was a charter member of the orchestra and trumpet and baritone player for over 25 years.
May this song and our lives honor his incredible legacy.
