Brendan has appeared as a guest Associate Concertmaster for the Tasmanian Symphony and Qld Philharmonic Orchestras, has played with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and America's Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, and is a former leader of the Qld Youth Symphony and the Australian Youth Orchestra. He performs regularly as a recitalist, as a guest with chamber ensembles and at music festivals, and he was recently a recording artist for the Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB).

A frequent violin tutor for Education Qld's Musically Outstanding Scholars programme (MOST), Brendan has also tutored the strings at the McGregor Summer School, the Gondwana Voices National Choral School, and in Western Qld for the federal government's Priority Country Area Programme. He has been a guest of the Music Centre of Northern Queensland (Townsville) and he was formerly a Visiting Guest Lecturer in Violin at Brigham Young University, USA.

Born and raised in Ayr, Queensland, Brendan’s teachers there were Joyce Crooks, Lyn Darveneza and Stephen Frewen-Lord. He undertook extensive studies with Elizabeth Morgan in Brisbane, and furthered these in America with Gerald Fischbach, William Preucil and in chamber music with David Salness and the Guarneri String Quartet. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Violin performance from The University of Maryland, and was awarded there for his leadership of the Maryland Handel Festival Opera Orchestra, as well as for his performances and premieres of the music of twenty Australian composers.