Bryant Waner

Bryant Waner has been a professional musician and educator for 30 years. His never ending quest for musical knowledge remains unsatiated as he continues his search for the answer to the question, "What is music?" At the beginning of the 2000s Bryant attended the prestigious Musician's Institute in Hollywood California where he graduated with honors. During his time there he won the prestigious Stanley Clarke scholarship.

Bryant returned home to take care of his family in the spring of 2004 and continued his musical studies at the University of Central Missouri where he completed a degree in Jazz/Commercial Arrangement and Performance. He spent much of his time when not performing in the University Symphony, the UCM Big Band or the Jazz Combos taking classes in Music Technology as well as working on researching Early and Medieval music. Bryant moved to Kansas City at the end of his Masters in Music Performance.

Bryant was endorsed by Conklin Guitars out of Springfield Missouri from 2008 until the untimely death of Bill Conklin in 2021.

Since moving to Kansas CIty Bryant has been a working musician in the jazz and contemporary music communities. Besides subbing in local Blues and Cover bands he has his own jazz quintet called Vertigo featuring several veterans of the local jazz and blues community.

Equally adept on electric and upright bass, Bryant has made it his mission to become the complete bass player. His specialty on electric bass is on extended range instruments where he regularly plays seven and nine string basses. While on upright bass Bryant prefers four strings, and he plays equally as well with a bow or his fingers.

During his musical journeys Bryant has also spent many hours in classes on guitar, learning from the Musician's Institute guitar curriculum. A staunch believer in the CAGED System roots his teaching style. Bryant has taught music for the last twenty five years to students of all ages.

When not playing bass or guitar, Bryant also plays a handful of ethnic and medieval instruments including lute, doumbek, djembe, rebec, hurdy gurdy as well as viola da gamba. In the last few years Bryant has also added drumset to his repertoire.

Finally, Bryant has his own recording studio that he designed and built. While it is capable of recording instruments and bands, it also has a full virtual scoring stage for Orchestra. HIs sample libraries are the most up to date and cutting edge when it comes to doing orchestral mockups.

Bryant looks forward to every lesson he teaches at Music House and he believes that anyone can learn music. He endeavors to make sure that all of his students learn more about their craft and have a lot of fun doing it.