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Brooke Pierson
Biography
Brooke Pierson (b. 30 April 1987, Toledo, Ohio) is an American educator, performer and composer.
Mr. Pierson holds a BA in music education from Michigan State University and is currently chair of the Fine Arts Department at the Washtenaw International High School and Middle Academy, (Ypsilanti, Mich.), teaching orchestra, band, music history, music culture, and music composition. He has held this position since the school's inception in 2011.
Mr. Pierson's music has been performed by ensembles in the U.S. and abroad, such as the Michigan State University Symphony Band, Dallas Winds Brass, West Point Band, and the Banda Musicale Citta di Seriate from Italy. Brooke was also a winner of the Dallas Winds fanfare competition in 2018.
Since 2009, Brooke has appeared as a guest composer, guest conductor, and teacher to schools and organizations. He also regularly collaborates with musicians and educators throughout the world; not only with instrumental music but as a teacher with International Baccalaureate Middle Years and Diploma Program music.
He also served as the music director of Grace Lutheran Church (Howell, Mich.) for eight years.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- The Gathering (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Heart's Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Amalthea. See: Moons of Jupiter
- Annapurna. See: Symphony No. 1
- The Archangel Gabriel (2020)
- The Beginning of All Things (2023)
- Café Bleu (2022)
- Concerto for Tuba and Wind Orchestra (2019)
- Deliverance (2020)
- Demon Dance (2011)
- The Devil's Circus (2009)
- each moment should be lived fully (2021)
- Europa. See: Moons of Jupiter
- The Gathering (2019)
- The Gathering (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Heart's Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Io. See: Moons of Jupiter
- The Lighthouse Keeps Watch (2020)
- Moons of Jupiter (2020)
- On the Precipice
- Psalm 74 (2023)
- Remember Autumn Skies
- Rise Up (2019)
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Symphony No. 2 (2021)
- Underneath the Silence (2008)
- We Are Made of Star Stuff (2022)
- West Point. See: Symphony No. 2
- When a Good Man Goes to War (2018)
Resources
- Brooke Pierson, personal correspondence, June 2020
- Brooke Pierson website Accessed 28 June 2020