Conductor and Associate Director of Bands
Brandon Estes, Associate Band Director at Naperville Central High School.,
Mr. Estes will conduct Concert Band and Wind Symphony, and will teach Music Appreciation: Bach to Rock. He will also direct Jazz Lab Band and will assist Mr. Alstadt with the Marching Redhawks.
Mr. Estes has been an active arranger, clinician and adjudicator in the Chicagoland area and various areas in Texas. A native of Houston Texas, He holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Texas State University – San Marcos where he studied in percussion under Genaro Gonzalez, Tony Edwards and John Lopez. He earned his Master's degree in Music Performance-Percussion from Northern Illinois University, where he studied under and was Graduate Percussion Assistant to Professor Robert Chappell and Dr. Gregory Beyer as well as Richard Holly and Liam Teague.
Mr. Estes' extensive drum corps marching experience includes membership with the Pioneer as well as the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps between 1998 and 2002. In 2005, he also served as Co-Arranger and Percussion Caption Head of the Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps. Brandon is currently a member of the Chicago Bears Drumline and a founding member of the Chicago Bulls “Stampede” Drumline. As an orchestral performer, Estes has performed with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta, and currently with the Elmhurst Symphony of Elmhurst, Illinois.
In 2006, Mr. Estes served as Assistant Band Director at Langham Creek High School in Houston, Texas. From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Estes has served as General Music Teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Addison, Illinois.. In addition to teaching full time as an elementary general music teacher, Mr. Estes served as the composer and marching percussion instructor for the Waubonsie Valley High School Drumline. Mr. Estes also serves on the design team as Battery Coordinator and Snare tech for the Open Class Pioneer Indoor independent WGI marching percussion ensemble.
E-Mail: bestes@naperville203.org
