Colin Britt, originally from Maine, graduated from the Hartt School in 2007 with studies in Music Composition and Conducting. A versatile pianist, he has worked as a staff accompanist at the Hartt School, the Connecticut Children's Chorus, and for several public school choirs in the Hartford area. He sings and is the assistant music director at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, and has sung with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Con Brio, and Concora (Connecticut Choral Artists).

At Hartt, he studied composition with David Macbride, Ken Steen, and Larry Alan Smith, and orchestration with Steven Gryc. He studied piano with Margreet Francis, took voice lessons with Wayne Rivera and Cherie Caluda, and was a private conducting student with Edward Bolkovac. Prior to entering college, he studied piano for many years with Brian Franck in Auburn, Maine.

His compositions have been performed by several ensembles at Hartt, Yale, and throughout the state, including the Hartt Chorale, the Hartt Symphony Orchestra, the Yale Schola Cantorum, and the Greater Middletown Chorale, who in 2008 premiered his arrangement of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in Europe. In the 2008-2009 season, he was the composer-in-residence for the New Haven Chorale, under the direction of Edward Bolkovac. His composition "Afternoon on a Hill" is scheduled for publication in 2010 with the Simon Carrington Choral Series, through Alliance Music Publications.

As a conductor, Mr. Britt assists with the Yale Camerata, and currently serves as the Marquand Chapel Choir director. From 2005-2007, he was the assistant conductor and accompanist for the Choral Club of Hartford and the musical director for the University of Hartford's a cappella group L'shir. In 2007, he conducted the Maine District II Honors Festival Middle School Orchestra. Mr. Britt has also been active in musical theater for most of his life, and has directed the music for productions of "Sweeney Todd," "Peter Pan," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Joseph and the Amazing..." "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "Singin' in the Rain," and a full concert performance of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana." In 2008, he was the assistant conductor for the Hartt Undergraduate Opera, "Orpheus in the Underworld."

Mr. Britt is currently pursuing a master of music degree in Choral Conducting at Yale University, where he studies with Marguerite Brooks, Jeffrey Douma, and Simon Carrington. He sings with the Yale Camerata and Schola Cantorum.