Guitar prodigy and Yale student Brandon ‘Taz’ Niederauer schools the younger generation on the Allman Brothers

Brandon “Taz” Niederauer has gotten used to balancing his schooling and his music career.

Niederauer, 19, spent two years on Broadway as one of the skilled kid musicians in the stage version of “School of Rock.”

“‘School of Rock,’ as well as my mom, have regulations. You have to do your schoolwork. I always cared about school, no matter what,” Niederauer says.

Meanwhile, he’s also played alongside guitarists greats, such as Buddy Guy, Dweezil Zappa and Slash and shared the stage with such rock royalty as Stevie Nicks, Lady Gaga, Scorpions, Dr. John and George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic.

Niederauer’s next gig is only a short walk from his Yale dorm. He’s part of the all-star band Trouble No More, paying tribute to the Allman Brothers Band on Nov. 10 at College Street Music Hall in downtown New Haven. The Harlem Gospel Travelers open the 8 p.m. show.

“I do a fair amount of gigs” outside of his studies at Yale, Niederauer says — the New Haven show is one of four in a row the band is doing — but school is “a lot of work. I’m very busy all the time.” In the middle of his sophomore year, he had been considering a split major in economics and math but says he’s now concentrating on economics.

Niederauer was on the College Street Music Hall stage just a few days ago, sitting in with his friends Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. He’s loving the New Haven music scene, saying it’s “definitely strong than my hometown” of Dix Hills, New York. He’s been to Toad’s Place, more as a Yale student for dance parties than a musician, and is aware of the small clubs like Cafe Nine and Stella Blues.

“I love New Haven, I love the vibe,” he says. “Even the cheap pizza is good.”

Trouble No More debuted in March of this year, assembled by talent manager CJ Strock. “He’s behind this whole operation. He put in his faith in us,” Niederauer says.

The band follows the distinctive Allman Brothers format of two lead guitarists and two drummers. Several members of the band have been associated with key members of the Allman Brothers Band or their side projects. Besides Niederauer on guitar and his brother Dylan Niederauer on bass, Trouble No More features Daniel Donato of the band Cosmic Country on guitar and vocals, Lamar Williams Jr. (son of Allman Brothers mid-1970s bassist Lamar Williams) on vocals, Jack Ryan and Nikki Glaspie on drums, lap and pedal steel guitarist Roosevelt Collier (who’s played with the Allman Brothers, the Tedeschi-Trucks Band, Los Lobos and others, as well as leading his own band) and septuagenarian keyboardist Peter Levin, who played with Gregg Allman in some of the star’s solo projects as well as in such Allman-inspired acts as Friends of the Brothers.

“Everybody has their own thing going on,” Niederauer says, but now join together on a regular basis to jam on Allman classics.

“We try to do justice to what they did. We try our best to make the songs our own and put our own spin on it,” he says.

One of Trouble No More’s sets at College Street Music Hall will be the icon Allman Brothers album “Eat a Peach” played in its entirety. Niederauer calls the double album, released in 1972, “one of the greatest albums of all time.” It contains such Allman Brothers standards as “Ain’t Wasting Time No More,” “Mountain Jam” and the song that the band is named for, “Trouble No More.”

The Allman Brothers Band, formed in Florida in 1969 by keyboardist/vocalist/songwriter Gregg Allman and guitarist Duane Allman, released their debut album that same year and hit their stride in the early ‘70s with their classic live album “Live at Fillmore East” and songs such as “Whipping Post” and “Ramblin’ Man.” There were many line-up changes along the way, and the band was severely impacted by the tragic death of Duane Allman shortly after the release of “Live at Fillmore East” in 1971. “Eat a Peach” was in the works when Duane Allman died; the album is dedicated to his memory and his playing can be heard on six of its nine tracks.

The Niederauer brothers gained their love of the Allman Brothers from their father. “My interest started when I was a kid,” “Taz” Niederauer says. “My dad used to play The Allman Brothers around the house. It was his favorite band. I gained this love of all the eras.”

The young guitarist says that audiences at Trouble No More shows are a “cross-section” of devoted followers of the Allmans and younger fans who, like Niederauer, weren’t born until decades after the original records came out.

“It’s a good selection of old guys with beards and younger fans.”

Trouble No More plays Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. at College Street Musical Hall, 238 College St., New Haven. $35-$75. collegestreetmusichall.com.

Reach reporter Christopher Arnott at carnott@courant.com.