Brandon Matthews serves as Chair and Professor of Music as well as Director of Orchestral Activities at Metropolitan State University of Denver. In addition to teaching conducting andleading the University’s orchestral ensembles, Dr. Matthewsworks as a music director for MSU Denver's Music Theatre Department and Opera Ensemble. He is also an active adjudicator and clinician for competitions and honor orchestras, and regularly collaborates with orchestras and arts organizations in Colorado such as the Aurora Symphony Orchestra, Loveland Opera Theatre, Littleton Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra, Arapahoe Philharmonic, Longmont Dance Theatre, the Boulder Symphony, and the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also conducted orchestral ensembles in Michigan, Texas, Utah, Washington, as well as Germany.

Matthews obtained a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting at Arizona State University, studying with Timothy Russell and William Reber. While at ASU, he was co-music director of the ASU Sinfonietta and served as an assistant conductor for the ASU Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. He also conducted operatic and musical theatreperformances in the ASU Lyric Opera Theatre. In 2015, Dr. Matthews was invited to Germany to work with Kenneth Kieslerand conduct the Berlin Sinfonietta in an international conducting workshop. Matthews also received a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting at Brigham Young University under the direction of Kory Katseanes. Other conducting mentors includeKenneth Kiesler, Harold Farberman, Ronald Staheli, and Larry Rachleff.

Raised in Spokane, Washington, he began his musical studies as a pianist and later took up the viola in the public schoolsystem. Matthews’s musical training continued during summers spent at the Brevard Music Center and the MarrowstoneSummer Festival. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance at BYU, and continues to perform on piano, viola as well as the violin. 

Dr. Matthews resides in Denver with his wife, Meghan, and their four children.