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Brian De Lorenzo

Talent America's 2001 "Performer of the Year"

About Me

Award-winning singer and actor BRIAN De LORENZO is equally at home in nightclubs, concert halls, and theatres. He has appeared at The Metropolitan Room, The Iridium, Don’t Tell Mama, Eighty-Eight’s, the New York Cabaret Convention, and the International Cabaret Festival in New York; the Chicago Cabaret Convention; Scullers Jazz Club (Boston); three Boston Cabaret Festivals; The Palm, and Incanto (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico); the Cape Cod Cabaret Festival; and multiple times at CabaretFest! Provincetown.

He appeared with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra and the Little Apple Big Band in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of The Rockefeller Arts Center at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He was named “Top Ten of New York Cabaret 2015.”

Of his latest recording, “I Know More Now,” entertainment writer John Hoglund said: “De Lorenzo has a penchant for story songs that pack a profound punch. In this regard, he is always committed and gives thrilling interpretations of old and new gems that speak from the soul.”

Brian earned the title “Performer of the Year” by winning first place at Talent America’s 27th Annual “Talent of the Year Awards” in New York, competing with performers from all over the US.

Brian’s debut recording Found Treasures was nominated for the “Recording of the Year Award” by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC). He is also featured extensively on the original cast recording Made in America: Vaudeville Songs, a tribute to the Gumm (Judy Garland) family in which he starred at Don’t Tell Mama in New York City.

Brian was nominated for an IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for “Best Cabaret Show” for Marry Me (a Little), which he performed at Boston’s Club Café. Other shows nominated for IRNEs include Mama, a Rainbow [Scullers, Boston and Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, Rochester, NY] and How Was I To Know? – Songs of Richard Rodgers.

Brian has performed at the 1st and 2nd Chicago Cabaret Conventions, appearing with nationally recognized cabaret talent. Brian has also sung at the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention in New York; and at three Boston Cabaret Festivals. He performed with Broadway star Judy Kuhn in the Overtures Productions concert staging of THE BAKER’S WIFE and with George Dvorsky and Tony Award winner Alice Ripley in Overtures’ ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY in Boston.