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The world-class performer Stan Breckenridge is an artist with an extraordinary aptitude to evoke emotions and feelings through his music performances. As imagined, the breadth of emotions and feelings are vast, which calls upon his performance and compositional workshop to be broad and far-reaching.

As a composer Stan’s recordings draw on his performances, as a vocalist and pianist of soul, blues, jazz standards, classical music, world music, and more, to purposely engage his audience in the infinite world of music. “Together we journey through unimaginable thoughts, emotions, feelings, and beautiful memories, that are integrated in our soul.”

Stan Breckenridge is serious about his music, and music in general, as he holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Claremont University, California, USA, and has authored four books. His music has contributed to the fields of culture, art, and education as he was awarded the 2019 Amicus Poloniae (“Friend of Poland”) distinction given to U.S. citizens, and on November 15, 2024 Stan Breckenridge became the first American to be honored with the Polish Independence Centennial Ring. Finally, he is recognized as one of 23 Fulbright Scholar alumni who have made a lasting impact worldwide in the fields of visual and performing arts, literature, music and more. Other notable individuals include Maya Angelou, John Lithgow, Aaron Copeland, John Steinbeck and eighteen others. “Giving, through my music, love and compassion is my greatest contribution to humanity.”

He has recorded fifteen albums and twelve singles, with the latest album Reimagined Chopin (2025), for voice/piano and the well-known Polish GLAM quartet, that reimagine’s selected Chopin pieces by using current-day stylistic tendencies drawn from jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, neo-classical, and funk. The album was performed live for the first time on March 1 (Chopin and Breckenridge’s birthday) 2025 in Żoliborz, Poland. The new single, “Theme From It Changed My Life” releases August 21, 2026. It features violin, viola, and flute accompanied by orchestral-sounds and performance practices.

Stan Breckenridge has/had engagements worldwide in such places as Dubai, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, North Macedonia (at this writing in one week), Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the United States of America. Performances in the United States include The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, The Greek Theatre, The Los Angeles Forum, The Los Angeles Sports Arena, The Hollywood Bowl, The Watts Summer Festival, Capitol Records and on various national television shows. He has performed with or for such celebrities as Madeleine Albright, Danuta Blazejczyk, Mahalia Jackson, Wojciech Karolak, Jerry Lewis, Janusz Muniak, Martha Reeves (of the Vandellas), Larry McCormick, Greg Morris, Rowan and Martin, David Ruffin (of the Temptations), Nancy Sinatra, John Travolta, John Wayne and many others.