Brett Jones
After growing up in South Dakota, Brett Jones attended the University of Colorado where he earned a degree in music education. He continued his studies at Texas Tech University where he earned both a master of music degree, and a doctor of musical arts degree in percussion performance. His primary instructors include Alan Shinn, Lisa Rogers, Doug Walter, Don N. Parker, John R. Beck and Gene Holter.
Jones served on the faculty of Texas Tech University from 2003–2004 and Blinn College from 2004–2007. He has performed as a section percussionist with the Black Hills Symphony Orchestra, the Boulder Philharmonic and the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, and as the principal percussionist of the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra. His publications include an article in Percussive Notes, and compositions and arrangements published by Honeyrock publications, Percussion Arrangers Music Publishing Company and Purple Frog Press. He was a featured presenter at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio in 2002 and is a guest percussionist on a number of recordings. Jones is a consultant for Houston’s Imperial Percussion Theater and endorses Encore mallets, Silverfox drumsticks, Grover Pro Percussion products and Planet Marimba mallet instruments.
Brett Jones currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Percussion at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He is known as the foremost expert on Robert Kreutz’s marimba music. His doctoral research culminated in his paper entitled The Marimba Music of Robert E. Kreutz: A Stylistic Study of the Choral Influences in his Compositions for Marimba which has been published in the Percussive Arts Society’s Online Research Journal. Jones resides in Superior with his wife, Meghan and their three children.