Paul Alan Price-Brenner can be equally described as a composer, arranger, educator, and performer.  Originally from Brookfield, WI, Price-Brenner began playing the violin at age eight and took up the viola at age twenty-four.  He began composing at age thirteen and became the first student composer to win four consecutive Wisconsin School Music Association composition awards.

As a composer, Price-Brenner has had works performed throughout the Midwest and has accepted numerous commissions by local musicians and ensembles.  While in Chicago, he won the first annual DePaul Chamber Orchestra Composition Contest with his composition Sinfonia for String Orchestra.  Two years later, Sinfonia won yet another performance at the Midwest Composer's Symposium, hosted by the University of Illinois.  In 2016, and through a competition co-sponsored by the Iowa Composer's Forum, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony commissioned a new work by Price-Brenner.  This new piece, entitled The Conjuring Wand, was premiered later that year.

Price-Brenner is currently Director of Orchestras at Dubuque Senior High School, in Dubuque, IA.  Before that, he held positions as an adjunct professor of music at Loras College in Dubuque, IA, Divine Word College in Epworth, IA, the Northeast Iowa Community College in Peosta, IA, and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in Platteville, WI.  In the past Price-Brenner has conducted several youth ensembles and, currently, maintains a private violin and viola studio out of his home.

Price-Brenner holds his Bachelor of Music Education (with an emphasis in composition and violin performance) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his Master of Music in Composition (with an emphasis in viola performance) from DePaul University, and his PhD in Music Composition (with an emphasis in viola performance) from the University of Iowa.  His violin and viola teachers include Terry Bjorklund, Tyrone Grieve, Rami Solomonow, Christine Rutledge, and Katherine Wolfe.  His composition instructors include John Downey, Joel Naumann, Stephen Dembski, George Flynn, Kurt Westerberg, Lawrence Fritts, and David Gompper.