8/11/2019 Letter to Band Directors

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Brandyn Metzko(216) 630-0468

webguybrandyn@gmail.com

Attn: Director of BandsRe: Private Music Instruction for Students

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Good morning!

My name is Brandyn Metzko, and I am a local woodwind instructor. I teach at my private homestudio in Lakewood, Ohio. As you undoubtedly have many new band students this year I wanted to take afew minutes to introduce myself and let you know that my studio is accepting new flute, clarinet andsaxophone students for private instruction this fall. While classroom music education is such a valuableasset in our schools, I’m sure you have seen that students who take private lessons are more dedicated to

the art, progress faster, and overall play better as they progress than students who do not take privatelessons.

I offer affordable rates ($25/hour or $15/half hour) and my home studio is easily accessible inLakewood. Please find my biography below, and don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions orto pass along my information to any students who may be interested.

Also, please keep me informed of your ensemble’s performance schedule this year, as I would love

to hear the great work that you and your students are doing in music making.

All the best,

Brandyn Metzko

Brandyn Metzko, conductor/flute/clarinet/saxophone/vocalist/composer, obtained his B.A in music at Cleveland

State University in 2006, where he studied flute with Sean Gabriel, voice with William Dempsey, and conducting withBetsy Burleigh. He is working on his Master's Degree in Entertainment Business at Full Sail University, to be complete inlate 2013.

Brandyn has had a thriving private teaching studio in Cleveland, Central Florida, New York City, San Franciscoand Los Angeles, preparing students for milestones ranging from Conservatory and Opera auditions to American Idol

 performances. He teaches voice, flute, piano, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, French horn, trombone, violin, viola,

conducting, music theory, and music history. His students study a variety of genres including Classical Music, Opera,Jazz, Baroque/Early Music and Popular/Broadway.

Brandyn helped to found the QUO Orchestra New York City in 2009, the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony in SanFrancisco in 2007 and the Blazing River Freedom Band in Cleveland in 2003, and has served on the board of the L/GBand Association as Membership Services Chair. Brandyn was artistic director of the Blazing River Freedom Band from2003 until 2007, and 2012- current, 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 worksfor concert band and chamber ensembles and has composed a number of original works.

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 and teaches as a freelance musician throughout Northeast Ohio.