Biography
Brandon Hendrix received his Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from Southeastern Oklahoma State University and his Master of Music degree in composition from the University of Oklahoma. His composition teachers include Christian Asplund, Jason Bahr, Kenneth Fuchs, Donald Grantham, and Yevgeniy Sharlat. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Texas at Austin.
His music has been performed by notable performers and resident ensembles throughout the United States, including the Queens College Brass Ensemble, the Stone Fort Wind Quintet, Quintet Attacca, Central Brass Quintet, and the University of Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra. His music has been featured at many prominent conferences and festivals of new music, including those held at Marshall College (Huntington, West Virginia), University of Alabama (Huntsville), Oklahoma City University, Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas), Georgia State University (Atlanta), Queens College (Flushing, New York), Clarke College (Dubuque, Iowa), University of Central Missouri (Warrensburg), Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro), and Arizona State University (Tempe). His Fanfare (for brass quintet) can be heard as the theme music for the weekly broadcast of “Music from UT,” a radio program on KMFA Classical FM in Austin, Texas.
He has received numerous awards for his music, including the Kirkpatrick Award in Music Composition at the University of Oklahoma (2004) and the Intermediate Composition award for the Solo String Music Competition at the University of Texas at Austin (2006). In 2007, he was awarded a grant from the John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund.
He is a member of the American Music Center (AMC), the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers (CFAMC), the College Music Society (CMS), and the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI). His music is published by HoneyRock Publications and Imagine Music Publishing.