Dr. Bryant Smith is Associate Professor and Director of Bands at Utah Tech University, where he teaches Symphonic Band, Conducting, First Year Experience, and Wind Literature. He also leads UT Music Travel Study programs, with recent trips to Mexico and England and an upcoming visit to Austria in 2026. A finalist for the Utah Tech Distinguished Teaching Award in 2022, he conducted the Utah All-State Symphonic Band in 2024, the Nevada Small-Schools All-State Band, and multiple honor groups in Utah and Washington. In 2019 he founded the Utah Tech Conducting Symposium, an annual regional gathering with guest clinicians, and is developing conductingtechniques.com, a new online resource for conductors.
Dr. Smith holds a Doctor of Arts from the University of Northern Colorado and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. His conducting mentors include David Blackinton, Barry Kopetz, Richard Mayne, Donald Peterson, Kenneth Singleton, Mark Ely, Scott Hagan, and Kory Katseanus. Before Utah Tech, he directed bands at Columbia Basin College and Spanish Fork High School, where he was the 2009 Teacher of the Year, and taught adjunct at BYU and UVSC.
An active composer, arranger, clinician, adjudicator, and researcher, he lives in Utah with his wife, Heather, and their four children.