About Me

Who is Brett Boyd?

Hey there! I’m Brett, a music composer, vocalist, & hornist in Chicago, IL.

With an extensive liberal arts education from Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN, I studied composition with Dr. Ben Blasko and performed with the university’s Concert Choir, Gospel Choir, Studio Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble, and participated in projects for artists Cody Fry, Tommee Profitt, and Andrea Bocelli. I graduated with a B.S. in Web Development with a Marketing concentration, and a Music Minor.

I continued an active musical involvement in Nashville, collaborating on more film scoring projects as a composer, recording engineer, and studio musician; joining ensembles like Lipscomb’s Chamber Singers, the Green Hills Wind Symphony (Nashville Wind Symphony), the Brentwood Baptist Worship Orchestra, and the professional chamber choir SONUS.

Additional collaborative projects in Nashville include multiple recording sessions with SONUS choir, massive symphonic performances with the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra Community Chorus, and a series of praise orchestra concerts in Germany with Global Missions Project.

After a wealth of enriching musical experiences in my hometown of Nashville, I now reside in Chicago, where I’ve continued to create, collaborate, and appreciate music and the arts.

My diverse body of work has earned several awards, been published by T.U.X. People’s Music, and reached sold-out audiences in the thousands.

I continue to actively compose music and perform as a hornist and vocalist in Chicago, and I recently released a new EP “Parallels”.

Official Bio

Brett Boyd is an award-winning composer, arranger, and sound designer in Chicago, IL. Known for his eagerness to explore, Brett has built up a catalog of film and videogame scoring work, published concert music with T.U.X. People’s Music, and participated in projects for artists Cody Fry, Tommee Profitt, and Andrea Bocelli.
Additionally, Brett performs in multiple ensembles as a French hornist and tenor vocalist, while embarking on numerous other creative endeavors that include game development, website design, and video production.
Brett’s inspiration draws first from film and videogame scores, with all the incredible musical breadth across the genres and generations. His specialty is creating a detailed and unique soundscape for every project, utilizing texture and timbre to craft truly special sounds. Whether he’s scoring a film or arranging a piece for choir, Brett always creates something sonically fresh, with an intricate attention to detail.
A rich background in choir and French horn strongly shapes Brett’s creative work, where beautiful melodies, lush tone colors, and of course, epic French horn moments find plenty of places in his work. Additionally, his tenor voice has found its way into more and more scoring projects, adding a truly one-of-a-kind texture to his tapestry of orchestral, electronic, and nontraditional instruments.
Brett graduated from Lipscomb University in 2023 and currently resides in Chicago, IL. You can find him at brettboydmusic.com