The National - Live At Montreux Jazz Festival

The National: Glastonbury 2024

The National - Live at Primavera Sound Barcelona 2024

The National - Live at Bearsville Theater

The National: I Am Easy to Find, Live from New York's Beacon Theatre

The National - Live From Pukkelpop 2019

The National - Live From Ypsigrock 2019

Death is Elsewhere

The National - Live at Elbphilharmonie 2017

The National: Sounds from a Safe Harbour at Cork Opera House

The National - Guilty Party: Basilica Hudson

The National - Live at Sydney Opera House

Mistaken for Strangers

A Lot of Sorrow

The National - 'High Violet' Live From Brooklyn Academy of Music

Live From the Artists Den

A Skin, A Night

The National - Live at El Castell Embruixat

Train Dreams

The Untranslatable Forest

Flamingos

We Live in Time

In Waves and War

Widow Clicquot

Sing Sing

Dandelion

Manhunt

She Came to Me

A Good Person

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Jockey

C'mon C'mon

All of This Unreal Time

Cyrano

Irresistible

The Two Popes

The Kitchen

I Am Easy to Find

The Professor

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

Transpecos

The Revenant

Out of a Forest

Bryce David Dessner (born April 23, 1976) is an American composer and guitarist based in Paris, and a member of the rock band the National. Dessner's twin brother, Aaron is also a member of the group. Together, they write the music in collaboration with lead singer and lyricist Matt Berninger.
In addition to his work with the National, Dessner is known for his work as an independent composer. His orchestral, chamber, and vocal compositions have been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, ensemble intercontemporain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (for the New York Philharmonic), Kronos Quartet, Carnegie Hall, BAM Next Wave Festival, Barbican Centre, Edinburgh International Festival, Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival (Cork, Ireland), Sydney Festival, eighth blackbird, Sō Percussion, New York City Ballet, and many others. His work, Murder Ballades, was featured on eighth Blackbird's album Filament, an album he also produced and performed on, which won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance.
Dessner has collaborated with artists such as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Paul Simon, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Jonny Greenwood, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Terry Riley, Justin Peck, Ragnar Kjartansson, Katia and Marielle Labèque, and Taylor Swift, among others. Dessner is the founder of the MusicNOW Festival, co-founder of Copenhagen's HAVEN festival, and co-curator of the festival Sounds from a Safe Harbour. He is a founding member of the improvisatory instrumental group Clogs and co-founder of Brassland Records. In 2018, Dessner was named one of eight creative and artistic partners for the San Francisco Symphony as part of incoming Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen's new leadership model for the orchestra in 2020. He has a master's degree in music from Yale University.
Dessner, along with his twin brother Aaron, was named the 243rd greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2023.
Dessner is currently an Artist-In-Residence for the 24/25 season at the National Concert Hall in Dublin.[1]  



Bryce Dessner