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Brenda Hopkins Miranda was born July 14th, and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her childhood was filled with sounds from all over the world and from an early age her profound sensibilities led her to intuitively reject stylistic boundaries. She began her musical path at the age of five with piano, ballet and painting lessons at Bonneville School. Her remarkable talent got her admission to the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico to begin undergraduate studies in Classical Piano at 16 while still attending high school.
Holding a Bachelors Magna cum Laude degree in Classical Piano from the Conservatorio, she was awarded a Berklee School of Music scholarship, received a Masters degree with honors in Contemporary Improvisation from New England Conservatory, and completed Doctoral Studies in Musicology at the Universidad de Granada in Spain.
As a bandleader Hopkins Miranda has released six recordings between 1998 and 2017 with her last four albums making the top 20, with three of them in the top 10 and two in the top 5 album list. A recognized composer and artist on several short films and documentaries, throughout her professional career she has been active as a first call pianist on international tours for a host of Latin American artists like Ricardo Montaner, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Marco Antonio Muñiz, Pandora, Ednita Nazario, Glenn Monroig, Yolandita Monge and many others.
In 2006 Brenda moved to Granada, Spain for two years to pursue a PHD in musicology at the Universidad de Granada. She successfully auditioned. Brenda is also a groundbreaking pioneer in education. She was the winner of the Gilles Boulet 2014 first prize and medal awarded in Florianopolis, Brazil by the Interamerican Organization for Higher Education and has created over 300 creativity exercises for musicians. Brenda gives music creativity workshops all over the world.
Pianist, composer, arranger, improviser, bandleader, and producer Brenda Hopkins Miranda currently is a professor at the Universidad Interamericana Recinto Metropolitano Music Program. She continues to perform.
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