Jacob A. Smith
Assistant Band Director/Director of Percussion Bryan Station High School
Biographical Info
Jacob Smith is the Assistant Director of Bands at Bryan Station High School. Mr. Smith assists and leads instruction with all aspects of the band program, including the concert bands, athletic bands, and chamber ensembles. He also instructs two VPA classes and the instrumental music portion of the StationArts Special Academic Program.
Some of his marching band percussion arrangements can be heard in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s 2021 marching band production, and Bryan Station’s 2022 marching band production.
While at UK, he studied percussion with Mr. Jim Campbell, Music Education with Dr. Michael Hudson, and conducting with Dr. Marcello Cormio. Mr. Smith was the recipient of the 2018 Elaine Gould Memorial Percussive Award, and the 2019 James B. Campbell Percussive Award. In May of 2019, he performed with the University of Kentucky Wind Symphony and Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In the summer of 2019, he was the Principal Timpanist for the Prague Summer Nights Music Festival which toured the Czech Republic, performing in the town of Tabor and Prague, Czech Republic. Performance venues here included the Oskar Nedbal Theatre, the Rudolfinum, and the Estates Theatre. In March 2020, Mr. Smith performed a concert as a section percussionist with the United States Air Force Band in their 2020 Educational Tour.