About Me

Brooks Taylor Salloum is a double bassist, music educator, and music innovator who recently relocated to San Diego, California. Brooks holds a masters and bachelors degrees in Classical Double Bass Performance from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, however tends to veer towards a variety of genres. Brooks has performed regularly with a folk band, various jazz ensembles, rock bands, a tango group, a hip-hop orchestra, pits for musicals, and their own solo sets combining double bass with guitar, voice, and loop pedal. As an educator, Brooks maintains their belief that music should be accessible to all, and learning should be individually designed for each student. While working for a non-profit youth orchestra program called MYCincinnati, Brooks developed various programs and projects to break the norm of what classical youth orchestra is “supposed” to be; such as a project in which music students wrote and arranged their own accompaniments to poems written by fellow youth. Brooks has formed musical groups to perform at protests, been involved in several benefit concerts, and worked for several years as a band coach and Youth Programming Coordinator for the nonprofit Girls Rock Cincinnati which serves girls and transgender youth. Brooks believes that music is a powerful force that can be used to build community, fight oppression, and expand one’s personal sense of self, and feels destined to incorporate this belief into their career as a performer and educator. Brooks is transgender and uses they/them, and he/him pronouns. 

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