Biography

Percussionist Brandon Mooney is an active performer, educator and arranger located in Montgomery, Alabama. A native of Watrous, Saskatchewan, Canada, he has established a strong reputation for the growth and promotion of youth percussion programs, with extensive teaching, performing and music arranging experience throughout Canada, the United States and Europe.   He is currently the Associate Director of Bands/Percussion at Huntingdon College, and is studying a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in percussion at the University of Alabama.

A versatile musician, Mooney enjoys being involved in many areas of percussion and has a particular affection for concert and marching percussion, and a focus on snare drum and marimba. Brandon has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) with the University of Texas Percussion Ensemble (2015) as a winner of the International Percussion Ensemble Competition (IPEC), and with the University of Texas Wind Ensemble under the direction of Jerry Junkin (2016). He recently won the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) 2020 Individuals Competition in the Solo Snare Drum 26+ category, and has previouly been a finalist/runner up in Concerto Competitions at the Univiersity of Alabama (2020), University of Texas (2016), and Orchestra Toronto (2015). Previously living in London, Ontario, Brandon enjoyed performing on many occassions with Orchestra London Canada, Stratford Symphony Orchesta, and sat on the sub list with the International Symphony Orchestra in Sarnia,Ontario/Port Huron, Michigan.

Brandon began playing in drum lines at the age of ten and has been in love with the marching activity ever since. He has enjoyed playing and teaching at many levels of the activity from local marching band comeptitions to Winter Guard International, to Bands of America groups (BOA), Drum Corps Europe (DCE), and most frequently, Drum Corps International (DCI). He has toured/performed in over 30 states as a drumming member with the Pride of the Lions Drum and Bugle Corps (Regina, Saskatchewan), Dutch Boy Drum and Bugle Corps, (Kitchener, Ontario), and the World Class Finalist Blue Stars (Lacrosse, Wisconsin). Brandon has previously served as the Drumline Director for the University of Western Ontario Marching Band, Adjudicator for the Canadian Drumline Association, Percussion Arranger for MDC Indoor Drumline of Salzburg, Austria, percussion staff with Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps, and has worked with several additional percussion programs throughout Southern Ontario, Central Texas, and Northern Germany. Upon graduating from the University of Texas, Brandon taught 40 private percussion students a week within the Round Rock ISD, ran the Cedar Valley Middle School Percussion Ensemble, and taught the highly recognized Round Rock High School Drum Line.

Brandon holds a Bachelor of Music degree with Honors in Music Education, and an Artist Diploma from Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, and a Masters Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Texas at Austin.  Primary instructors include Chris Worthington, Jill Ball, Tom Aungst, Thomas Burritt, and Andrew Lynge.