Garrett is a composer and multi-instrumentalist living in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln studying with Dr. Eric Richards and Dr. Tyler White. He has been adjunct faculty at the University of Northern Colorado, the Larimer campus of Front Range Community College, and Colorado Christian University. Garrett also teaches private composition, bass, and guitar lessons out of his home.

Garrett has had his pieces performed across the United States and Europe. Most recently, Garrett was commissioned by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to provide 30- and 60-second spots for the Put Yourself on the Map TV commercial ad campaign that was aired during Husker football games on network and pay-per-view television. The commercial was awarded a grand gold for Excellence in Advertising at the 2010 CASE District VI conference. The Sheldon Museum of Art on the UNL campus commissioned Garrett to provide music for a TV commercial in 2008. In 2006 he completed a commission, Two Places in Waterton Lakes National Park, for solo marimba written for a Master of Music recital at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champagne. His choral piece God’s Grandeur won the 2003 Young Colorado Composers Competition, and he received honorable mention in the 2006 International Society of Bassists David Walter Composition Competition for Shame, a piece for double-bass quintet. An electronic piece, 6 Years and Counting, was commission by Front Range Community College for the 2006 Arts Gala. In June of 2008 the new music ensemble Affinity premiered Flibbertigibbet, a mixed chamber piece, in Seattle, WA.

In 2003 Garrett graduated from Colorado Christian University with a double major in music and history. Garrett completed a Masters of Music degree in Theory and Composition at the University of Northern Colorado in 2006. He has studied composition with Dr. R. Evan Copley, Dr. Bob Ehle, Emmy winning composer Bruce Broughton, award winning Dr. Eugene O’Brien, John Musto, Dr. Tyler White and Dr. Eric Richards.

Mr. Hope is also a freelancing performer who has performed on upright and electric bass; and guitar with several Colorado community ensembles, a small jazz trio, and professional musical theaters; and he has toured the Mid-West and Western Canada. He has played extensively at churches in the Denver and Northern Colorado area, and can be heard on acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Trace Bundy’s album Adept, and singer-songwriter Amy Schmidt’s Restless Things. Garrett has studied electric and double bass in jazz, classical, and pop styles with Ron Bland, David Rutherford, and James Vaughn.