Velvet Brown

Velvet Brown is an internationally recognized orchestral and chamber tubist, composer and educator. She is the principal tubist of the Altoona Symphony Orchestra [ [http://www.altoonasymphony.org/meettheASO.asp Altoona Symphony Orchestra - Meet the Musicians] (retrieved on December 2, 2006).] and has served as principal with the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra from 1989-2004, and as substitute or additional tubist with the Detroit Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, San Francisco Women's Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra.

Brown is associate professor of tuba and euphonium at Pennsylvania State University. [ [http://www.music.psu.edu/prospective/faculty/brass.html#tuba Penn State School of Music] (retrieved on December 2, 2006).] [ [http://www.music.psu.edu/pdfs/ughandbook06-07/faculty_list.pdf Faculty List (PDF)] , Pennsylvania State University.] Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, she taught at Bowling Green State University, Ball State University, and served as an associate director of university bands at Boston University, where she holds a master's of music degree. She holds a bachelor's in music from West Virginia University. [WVU Today, October 26, 2004, [http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/news/page/3553/ Music alumna Velvet Brown to present guest artist recital Oct. 29] (retrieved on December 2, 2006).]

She is serving as the secretary of the executive committee of the International Tuba and Euphonium Association (ITEA), [ [http://iteaonline.org/committees.shtml International Tuba Euphonium Association - committees] (retrieved on December 2, 2006).] and she is also a board member of the International Women's Brass Conference. She has performed with Junction, a female tuba-euphonium quartet. [ [http://www.musicfinland.com/brass/itec/gallery_05.html ITEC 2001] , Lahti, Finland, retrieved on December 2, 2006.]

She composed "Te Dago Mi", a duet for tuba and euphonium with piano.

Discography

olo recordings

* 1998 - "Velvet Brown, Tuba" (Crystal)
* 2001 - "Music for Velvet" (Crystal)

Other recordings

* 2000 - "Heart of a Wolf" (Nicolai Music)
** Solo tuba and tuba/euphonium duet
* 2003 - "Monarch Brass" (2003)
** Monarch Brass Ensemble and Brass Quintet
* 2004 - "New Music From Bowling Green, Vol. 3" (Albany)
**"Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra" by John Williams with the Bowling Green Philharmonia
* 2005 - "Perspectives in Rhythm (Crystal)
**Tuba and percussion ensemble

References

External links

* [http://users.lazerlink.net/~vbrown/ Velvet Brown home page]