Brandyn Metzko, conductor/flute/clarinet/saxophone/vocalist, obtained his B.A. Music from Cleveland State University in 2006, and his Master's from top-ranked Full Sail University in 2015.

Brandyn has had a thriving private teaching studio for nearly two decades, coaching artists in Cleveland, Central Florida, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Currently he teaches in conjunction with Marrell Music and Instrument Repair in Lakewood, Ohio.  He is the instructor-in-residence there for flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, horn, violin, viola, cello, as well as beginner-intermediate piano and all levels of classical, broadway, character and pop/rock voice.

Brandyn helped to found the QUO Orchestra New York City in 2009, the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony in San Francisco in 2007 and the Blazing River Freedom Band in Cleveland in 2003, and has served on the board of the L/G Band Association as Membership Services Chair. Brandyn was artistic director of the Blazing River Freedom Band from 2003 until 2007, co-artistic director of the Queer Urban Orchestra in 2009-2010, and served as the Assistant Music Director with the Central Florida Sounds of Freedom Band. Brandyn has also arranged countless works for concert band and chamber ensembles and has composed a number of original works. He resumed his post as Artistic Director of the Blazing River Freedom Band winter 2012 and remained through Winter 2014.

Brandyn's performance credits include solo and chamber works; studio recording; sacred, operatic, Broadway and popular vocal music; wind band, orchestral and flute choir ensemble work; and concert and marching band direction and performance. He currently performs, produces, composes and teaches as a freelance musician throughout Northeast Ohio

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