Zach Brake (BME ’16) 

Brake is an active musician, band leader and educator in Colorado. He manages and directs the award-winning brass band Guerrilla Fanfare and the jazz trio Speak the Future; his compositions and arrangements are performed regularly with these ensembles. In December 2024, Brake was commissioned by Colorado Mesa University to write a piece premiered at the 2024 Best of the West Festival in Grand Junction, Colorado, with Guerrilla Fanfare as guest artists. Brake’s original composition, “Collisions,” premiered on Dec. 6, 2024 at the Asteria Theater.

Additionally, Brake is a member of the Mapleton Public Schools District Performing Arts Program teaching staff where he directs jazz studies, conducts the Skyview Symphonic Band and teaches itinerant beginning band.