MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

A Chicago native, Brandon Jackson is a sought-after young composer, orchestrator, copyist, conductor, and musician for film, theater, live performances, and studio work. As a student at the Berklee College of Music, he has worked on hundreds of student-scored films, as well as numerous independent films as a musician, orchestrator, and conductor. Jackson’s work can be heard on the upcoming EP of Beloved King: A Queer Bible Musical, in which he is the orchestrator, as well as the Silver Spring Theater production of She Kills Monsters, where Jackson composed and produced a 100% original score for the play. His debut work, Where The River Ends, is currently underway and will begin to become available to the public in the coming months.

As a musician, Jackson is a proficient string doubler, doubling violin/viola, basses, mandolin, and a host of other stringed instruments, including tenor banjo, guitar, autoharp, and ukulele. He also plays a host of other random instruments, like the bodhrán, bones, and spoons. Jackson is a multi-genre performer, comfortable with any style including classical, jazz, MT, rock, pop, R&B/Soul, Metal, Celtic, Bluegrass/Country, and folk.

Jackson has had the pleasure of working and/or studying with, Julius Williams, Dr. David Wallace, Mimi Rabson, Jason Anick, Mia Asano, Larry Klein, Sarah Ioannides, Eric Stern, George Monsuer, as well as a host of wonderful artists.