Braizhan Jones
Double Bass
Braizahn Jones is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Hal Robinson and Edgar Meyer. Braizahn studied with Paul Firak (Principal Bass, Las Vegas Philharmonic) in his hometown of Las Vegas, NV before attending The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University; There he studied with Jeffrey Weisner before transferring to Curtis in 2014. Since then Braizahn has gone on to perform and tour with both the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony before receiving tenure as the Assistant Principal Bassist of the Oregon Symphony. As a chamber musician, Braizahn has performed with world-renowned artists at Chamber Music NorthWest and Jackson Hole Chamber Music. A passionate teacher, Braizahn serves as part of the Double Bass Faculty with the National Orchestral Institute at The University of Maryland - College Park. He's served as guest faculty at the Pacific Music Institute in Honolulu, as well as various other festivals and youth orchestras locally, nationally, and internationally; he's set to join the Double Bass faculty at Reed College in Portland, OR starting in Fall of 2022.