Braizahn Jones

Braizahn Jones serves as Assistant Principal Bass of the Oregon Symphony, a position he has held since fall of 2018. A graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, Jones studied with Hal Robinson and Edgar Meyer over four years.

Originally from Las Vegas, NV, Jones first studied with Paul Firak (Principal Bass, Las Vegas Philharmonic) before attending The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Jeffrey Weisner (National Symphony). He transferred to Curtis in 2014 where he graduated in 2018.

Performance Experience

Jones has performed and toured with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Seattle Symphony since 2017. As a chamber musician, he has appeared with world-renowned artists at Chamber Music Northwest, Jackson Hole Chamber Music, and The Pacific Music Institute. Including occasional guest appearances at Music in the Mountains in Durango, CO, Oregon Bach Festival, and Bellingham Music Festival.

Teaching & Education

Jones maintains an active teaching career, having served on faculty at Portland State University, Reed College, and The National Orchestral Institute at The University of Maryland.

Known for precise, detail-oriented teaching, he works with students at all levels to develop musical clarity and artistic confidence.

Umami Bass

Umami Bass was founded by Braizahn Jones in 2025 following a workshop in Kyoto, Japan. Inspired by musical traditions that have flourished in places like Philadelphia and carried across generations of performers and teachers, the project exists to foster environments centered on depth, curiosity, sound, and meaningful collaboration.

Umami Bass sets out to foster musical environments where transcending cultures can feel common.

Philosophy

Choosing to become an artist today, let alone a classical musician, often asks people to endure immense uncertainty before they get to fully experience what makes the pursuit meaningful. Yet within this art form exists generations of deeply refined ways of thinking: about collaboration, listening, discipline, beauty, integrity and humanity itself.

Classical music already carried an archaic quality long before the internet, smartphones, social media, or AI. Rather than seeing that distance from modern life as a weakness, Braizahn views it as an opportunity: a blueprint for building communities grounded in virtue, curiosity, and meaningful human connection.