Brendan Weinbaum is a composer for film, television, video game, and concert music. Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, he received his Bachelor's of Music in Theory and Composition from the Frost School of Music in Miami, FL. Before writing music, Brendan programmed video games for his friends to enjoy. Responsible for every aspect of the games' development, he taught himself composition and orchestration at a young age. Since then, his works have been performed and recorded by ensembles including the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Scoring Orchestra, Interlochen World Youth Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Sinfonietta, Atlanta Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Georgia State University Concert Band among others.

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Brendan has studied composition with Donald Scott Stinson, Greg Simon, Amanda Harberg, Lansing McLoskey, and Dorothy Hindman. On clarinet, his teachers have included Margaret Donaghue, Jeffrey Brooks, Jacques Bell, and T.C. Spivey-Hall. He is a two-time winner of the National Young Composers Challenge, ASCAP Morton Gould Award finalist, and two-time winner of the Georgia Music Educators Association's Composition Competition.

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Brendan has served as a project director of several initiatives in the past. From 2022 through 2024, he worked as executive producer of the Scores for the Silver Screen film festival, a Miami-based film festival​ where participating films are scored by student composers and performed live-to-picture at the end of the collaboration. During the pandemic, Brendan founded the Composers Collaborative Project, an online non-profit festival put together to fill the vacancy of educational resources created by the pandemic and benefit those struggling at the time. Participating teachers volunteered their time and expertise, and all of the money raised went to New Music USA.​