Brandon Felder is a multifaceted and passionate musician, artist, producer, composer, educator and arts advocate. Felder was appointed assistant professor of Music at Bowie State University in 2022 and serves as the Director of Choral Activities. Professor Felder also provides additional collaborative efforts within the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Bowie State. Professor Felder is the former music director of the Georgetown University Gospel Choir and is a multifaceted music director, pianist, organist, arts advocate, and teaching artist with earned degrees from Howard University (Bachelor Music Education-Magna Cum Laude) & The University of Maryland College Park( Master of Music Education with Published Research on Music Technology) with over 20 years’ of music experience while claiming only to be 25 years old!
Felder actively serves within the community providing music experience at all levels (public school, parochial school, and collegiate settings) consistently producing award winning distinctions for his programs ranging from NAMM Music Merit Awards (2017-2024), Billboard Music Charts (2017), and GRAMMY® Recording Academy Signature Schools (2015-2017) as well as Maryland Arts and Humanities and Arts Education Grants/Awards (2020-2024). Felder serves as a Governor on the GRAMMY Recording Academy Washington DC Chapter Board and is the GRAMMY Board DC Education Committee Chairperson providing outreach, scholarship and assistance to students, educators, schools and institutions. Felder is also a 2022 recipient of YAMAHA Music Educators 40 under 40 national recognition.
Felder actively serves within the community, through humanitarian, educational, artistic, and sacred musical art forms and has performed for Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, and Oprah Winfrey. He served as musical director for the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia for Black History Month (February 2013).
Felder’s newest curated recording “Mosaic Intersections of Sound” Volume 1 “Be Myself” is slated for release. Brandon is constantly seeking to lead young people (and the young at heart) to experience music in a way they never had before. Brandon is the devoted husband of LaTanya, and they are the proud parents of two daughters Cadence and Olivia and son Jaxon.
