Brandon Michael Jones is a Kentucky native and a graduate of Western Kentucky University. In 2001, Brandon was selected by taped audition to travel to Lahti, Finland as a 19-year-old to compete in the 2001 International Tuba and Euphonium Conference (ITEC) Artist Solo Competition. He would be the youngest to ever make the finals and would perform with the Vaasa Symphony Orchestra. The following year, the competition was held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Brandon would again make the finals, something that had never been accomplished before by someone at his young age. The next year, Brandon was selected to attend the Brass Band of Battle Creek “Avalon” summer brass band camp, and was named principal euphonium after the audition process was complete. He would be featured on the week-ending concert as a soloist, where he performed the “Concerto for Euphonium” by Vladimir Cosma. While at Western Kentucky University, Brandon was the featured soloist with the wind ensemble on the trip to Russia. The trip included several concerts in Moscow as well as in St. Petersburg, including a concert in the Great Tchaikovsky Hall in front of a packed house. Brandon was also featured as a soloist on the WKU Wind Ensemble Tour on two other separate occasions, including performances throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Brandon was also featured as a soloist frequently with the Southern Kentucky Concert Band as well as one of the featured soloists on the annual “PRISM” concert, a long-standing tradition at WKU.

As a clinician and teacher, Brandon is in near constant demand across the USA for brass clinics as well as master classes involving direct work with students. He has taught brass clinics at the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts on numerous occasions as well as the Tennessee Music Educators Association Conference. He maintains a strong studio of high school euphonium and brass players throughout Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee, and each year his students are selected among the top of the Kentucky All-State bands, a group where he himself was principal euphonium in his high school days at Muhlenberg North High School. Brandon has had five different students to be selected as principal euphonium in Kentucky in seven years of private teaching. Of the ten euphonium players selected for the Kentucky All-State Symphonic and Concert Bands, Brandon consistently has three or more students to make the group, including having the top two euphonium players in the top ensemble in the state consistently for the past several years. Brandon has also had students make the finals of the ITEC student competition. Brandon’s students also go on to consistently receive distinguished-plus ratings at the solo and ensemble festival, earn principal chair in their respective district bands, principal chair in numerous honor band groups, and have gone on to fill principal chairs in some of the nations finest collegiate wind ensembles.

As a soloist, Brandon is in very high demand. He has been featured as a soloist at the KMEA Conference on numerous occasions, including the world premiere of “Danny Boy” by John Fannin, which was written for him and the Muhlenberg North Middle School Band, and was premiered at the 2005 KMEA Conference. Brandon has performed countless times with some of the best high school, collegiate, and professional ensembles throughout the country, including the world-renowned Brass Band of Battle Creek on a special concert in the Cayman Islands. He has also been featured as a guest performing artist at the International Tuba Euphonium Conference. His performance schedule takes him from coast to coast and beyond.
Brandon’s primary teachers have included Troy Stovall (Director of Bands, Muhlenberg North High School) and Joe Stites (Professor of Tuba and Euphonium, Western Kentucky University). He also credits much of his success to his former retired high school band director, Joe Allen, and his former collegiate director of bands, Dr. John Carmichael.

Brandon is a Buffet Crampon USA Clinician and a Besson Euphonium Performing Artist, and is very proud to be a part of both highly prestigious organizations. He performs exclusively on the Besson Prestige 2052 silver-plated euphonium and Mike Finn mouthpieces.