Brandon Scott Rumsey, recently named University of Oregon’s Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar in Composition, is a thriving force in the new music community as a composer, performer, conductor, and collaborator.

His music, praised for its diverse range of musical expression and vibrant use of instrumental color, includes commissions from the University of Oregon Saxophone Studio, Pacific Rim Gamelan, Convergence Vocal Ensemble (Austin, TX), Ronald Feldman (Boston, MA), Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, American Creators Ensemble, and many student performers. Brandon’s works have been performed at University of Nevada-Reno, Music Today Festival, Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, Oregon Composers Forum, North American Saxophone Alliance Region I Conference, and Bowdoin International Music Festival (Brunswick, ME). This summer, he will study and compose at the Brevard Music Center (Brevard, NC).

As a composer and music director, Brandon specializes in interdisciplinary collaboration for theatre, intermedia technology, visual art, and dance. As a bassoonist and saxophonist, he has premiered over thirty new works and is a member of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, University Symphony, and Loaded Dice New Music Ensemble.

He is a current member of the Oregon Composer’s Forum, American Composers Forum, ASCAP, Society of Composers, Inc., International Double Reed Society, and the North American Saxophone Alliance. A Nevada native, Brandon Rumsey will graduate in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in music composition from the University of Oregon (Eugene, OR) where he studies with Robert Kyr and David Crumb and, this fall, will begin graduate study in music composition at The University of Texas at Austin.