Brian Hargrove is a Los Angeles based composer/pianist from Dallas, Texas and an alumnus of USC's Thornton School of Music and Annenberg School of Communication. Hargrove's commissioned and personal work as a composer spans a wide range of idioms and contexts - from jazz to pop; chamber/orchestral to art music fusing aesthetics of hip-hop and avant-garde. Collaborations include projects with Michael Jackson, Vesper Theatre Company, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Strings and more. As keyboardist, he was a long-time member of Roy Hargrove's “The RH Factor”, toured worldwide with Solange Knowles and performed with Harvey Mason, Roy Ayers, Alice Smith, The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and many others.