Michael Luley has been Director of Bands at Lake Braddock Secondary School since 2011. 
He currently serves as the Performing Arts Department Chair. He directs three high school ensembles, the marching band, and assists with the middle school band program. Under his direction, the Lake Braddock Symphonic Band performed at the 2015 Music For All National Concert Band Festival and was invited to perform again in 2020, the 2015 Virginia Music Educators Conference, and a joint concert in 2019 with West Virginia University’s Wind Symphony in Morgantown, WV. The Lake Braddock Band was awarded the National Blue Ribbon Program of Excellence Award in 2016 and in 2017 the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s Sudler Flag of Honor. Previously, as Associate Director at Lake Braddock, Mr. Luley’s jazz ensemble performed twice at Blues Alley, in Washington, D.C. and performed with the Lake Braddock Symphonic Band on tour in Beijing, China in 2010.
Before coming to Lake Braddock, Mr. Luley taught band in North Carolina, Mississippi, and Falls Church, Virginia. He holds the Bachelor of Music Education degree from West Virginia University and the Master of Music Education degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. Mr. Luley is a member of several professional organizations and served as the Virginia State Representative for the National Band Association for five years, VBODA District 11 Instrumental Representative, and currently chairs the VBODA Concert Assessment Committee. Mr. Luley has received three Citations of Excellence from the National Band Association and has enjoyed opportunities directing Honor Bands in Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
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Associate Band Director
Brandon Gilbert is the Associate Band Director at Lake Braddock Secondary School, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2020. Mr. Gilbert assists in all aspects of the middle and high school band programs. His primary teaching responsibilities include directing the Lake Braddock Jazz Ensemble, a high school concert band, an 8th grade concert band, 7th grade band and ensembles, and co-directing the Lake Braddock Bruin Marching Band. He also teaches Advanced Placement Music Theory and works with the Lake Braddock Theatre as the pit orchestra director for musicals.
Prior to his arrival at Lake Braddock, Mr. Gilbert attended Tennessee Tech University, where he received a BM in Instrumental Music Education. While at Tennessee Tech, Mr. Gilbert was a saxophonist and clarinetist with the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band, Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and the Troubadours Jazz Ensemble, and was an undergraduate teaching assistant, or “Black Jacket” for the Golden Eagle Marching Band.
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Middle School Band Director
Krista Pezold 
joined Lake Braddock in 2020 as the Director of Middle School Bands. In addition to teaching concert bands, she started the Lake Braddock Middle School Jazz Band in 2021. Although she is a native Northern Virginian who attended Mt. Vernon High School and George Mason University, she spent the previous sixteen years before coming to Lake Braddock teaching middle school band in Cobb County, a suburb in northwest Atlanta, GA. Before moving to Atlanta, Ms. Pezold was the Assistant High School Band Director at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax for six years, where she taught both middle and high school bands, marching band, middle school jazz band, high school trombone choir, and AP Music Theory. Ms. Pezold earned a bachelor’s degree in Decision Sciences in 1987, worked in the field for six years, but then returned to school to earn both a bachelor’s and a master’s in music at George Mason. Ms. Pezold is an avid gardener, and she also enjoys freelance work as a trombonist and volunteering for local non-profit organizations in her free time.
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