After growing up in South Dakota, Brett Jones attended the University of Colorado where he earned a degree in Music Education. He continued his studies at Texas Tech University where he earned both a Master of Music degree, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Percussion Performance. His primary instructors include Alan Shinn, Lisa Rogers, Doug Walter, Don N. Parker, John R. Beck, and Gene Holter.  

Jones served on the faculty of Texas Tech University from 2003-2004, and Blinn College from 2004-2007. He has regularly performed in the percussion sections of the Black Hills Symphony Orchestra, the Boulder Philharmonic, the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, and the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra. Jones also served as the Principal Percussionist of the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2007.

He performs a wide variety of chamber music and is a member of the newly formed Percussion Duo North.

His publications include articles in Percussive Notes, The Instrumentalist, and School Band and Orchestra Magazine, and compositions and arrangements published by C. Alan Publications, HoneyRock, Percussion Arrangers Music Publishing Company, and Purple Frog Press.

He was a featured presenter at the Wisconsin Day of Percussion in 2010, and the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio in 2002.  Jones endorses Encore mallets, Silverfox drumsticks, Grover Pro Percussion products, and Planet Marimba mallet instruments.  

Jones currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Percussion at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He is known as the foremost expert on Robert Kreutz's marimba music. His doctoral research culminated in his paper entitled The Marimba Music of Robert E. Kreutz: A Stylistic Study of the Choral Influences in his Compositions for Marimba which has been published in the Percussive Arts Society's Online Research Journal. Jones resides in Superior with his wife, Meghan and their four children.

Sample Recordings

• Caprice V (3.2 MB)
• November Evening (4.4 MB)
• Theme with Six Variations (Var. III) (1.8 MB)
• Fall River (5.3 MB)
• To the gods of rhythm (4.1 MB)
• Bossa Nova USA (5.2 MB)

Sample Video

• Klezmer Medley
  

Related Links

• percussionduonorth.com