Brandon Brack is the Director of Music at AUMC, where he
leads the 9:00 Worship team, conducts the Chancel Choir and oversees the
Children’s Music Ministry.
Currently on the Choral and Voice faculties of Fullerton College, Mr.
Brack conducts the Collegiate Chorale and the 40-voice Women’s Chorale, as well as Applied Voice. He recently joined the faculty at California State
Polytechnic University-Pomona, where he teaches Studio Voice and Class
Voice. Mr. Brack is the founding
Singing and Solfege Teaching Artist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Youth
Orchestra LA at HOLA, the El Sistema initiative championed by the LA Phil’s
Music Director, Gustavo Dudamel.
In 2012, Mr Brack will
receive his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Thornton School of Music at
the University of Southern California, where he was Conductor of the Apollo
Men’s Chorus during the 2009-10 season.
He holds two Master of Music degrees in both Choral Conducting and Vocal
Performance from the University of Michigan School of Music, and a Bachelor of
Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of
Music.
Mr. Brack has sung with such
prominent ensembles as Chanticleer, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, the San
Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Vox Humana, Pacific Chorale and the
John Alexander Singers. He has
been a featured soloist with the New World Symphony under the baton of
Michael Tilson Thomas, Seraphic Fire, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the UC-
Berkeley Symphony, and the Berkshire Choral Festival, where he led master
classes in choral conducting and vocal technique.
As a member of Chanticleer
in the 2003-2004 season, he sang more than 100 concerts throughout the United
States, Asia, and Europe, performing with artists such as countertenor David
Daniels and pianist Mitsuko Uchida, in venues including the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Vienna’s Konzarthaus, and the
Concertgebow in Amsterdam.
While living in the Bay Area from 2003- 2005, Mr. Brack served as the
Artistic Director of Musaic Singers Inc., a 10-voice male a capella ensemble, as Choral Conductor of the Young Musicians
Program at UC Berkeley, and was the Director of Level I for the San Francisco
Girls Chorus.