Brandon Dye
- School of Music
An active music educator, musician, and scholar, Brandon Dye is a first year Ph.D. student in Historical Musicology at the University of Florida. His most recent awards include the Sally and Jack Jenkins Service Award in 2019 and the Outstanding Musicianship, Performance, and Academic Achievement Award in 2020. Brandon has participated in the International Porto Heli Music Festival in Greece since 2021, where he has played solo and chamber music and participated in various master classes. He served as the Magnet Orchestra and Choir Director at South Miami Senior High School, Magnet School of the Arts in the 2021-2022 school year and co-lead the choral program from 2022-2024. He served as the Summer Young Mozart’s Orchestral Conductor and a violin coach for the Greater Miami Youth Symphony Summer Camp. Brandon also served as the beginning MYami Strings teacher and the Strings Orchestra conductor with Greater Miami Youth Symphony in the regular season. Brandon played violin in the Alhambra Orchestra and sang in the Master Chorale of South Florida while studying in Miami.
Brandon most recently completed his Master’s degree in Musicology from University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. His thesis “Masking Identity: The Reframing of Blackness Through the Hampton Singers’ Tours” explores how Black Americans were received in Europe and the United States through the tours by the Hampton Singers from the 1870s to the 1930s. He was selected to present his research at the First Annual Frost School of Music Graduate Research Showcase. Brandon holds an undergraduate degree in Music Education from The University of Tampa.