Velvet Brown Clinic and Concert at University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point on March 1st/2nd, 2007
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Velvet Brown enjoys
a professional career as an international soloist and chamber
ensemble performer, recording artist, conductor and orchestral
player. 
Stevens Point / Department of Music on March 1st and 2nd,
2007:Thursday, March 1:
8:40-9:25 Clinic for Full Band at Wausau East HS
9:30-10:15 Low Brass Clinic at Wausau East HS
1:00-4:00 Private lessons for UWSP tuba and euphonium students, Noel Fine Arts Center rm. 332 (1/2 hour @).
5:00-6:00 Talk and Question and Answer session on how she has developed her career as an African-American female tuba artist. Noel Fine Arts Center room 201. Free and open to the public.
Friday, March 2: 9:00-10:50 Master Class for UWSP Tuba and Euphonium students in Noel Fine Arts Center 250, free and open to the public.
2:00-3:30 Open rehearsal with the UWSP Wind Ensemble, free and open to the public.
7:30 UWSP Wind Ensemble concert in Michelsen Hall, Noel Fine Arts Center, featuring Velvet Brown playing the Tuba Concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with a “Meet the Artist” reception afterwards.
For more details, visit
http://www.uwsp.edu/music/
Ms. Brown is currently the principal tubist of the Altoona Symphony Orchestra, the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, and the River City Brass Band. She has served as substitute or additional tubist with the Detroit Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, San Francisco Women's Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. She has also garnered high praise as a founding and current member of the Monarch Brass Quintet and Brass Ensemble, the Junction Tuba Quartet, the Garda Duo, and as frequent soloist with the Percussion Plus Project.
Velvet Brown is associate professor of tuba and euphonium at the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, she taught at Bowling Green State University (Ohio), Ball State University (Indiana), and served as an associate director of University Bands at Boston University. She has had many successful students who have been prizewinners at various regional, national and international competitions. Currently, Ms. Brown is serving as the secretary of the Executive Committee of the International Tuba and Euphonium Association (ITEA), and she is also a board member of the International Women's Brass Conference. Ms. Brown is noted for receiving the 1999-2000 William Fulbright Fellowship Vinciguerra Award.
She has released three solo CDs ("Velvet," "Music for Velvet" and "Perspectives in Rhythm") for Crystal Records, and a CD for the Nicolai Music Label performing music by Neal Corwell. Velvet Brown can also be heard on the Bowling Green Philharmonia's "Composer's Voice - Volume IV" recording (Albany) in her interpretation of John Williams' Tuba Concerto.
Velvet Brown performs on Meinl-Weston CC-Tuba 2000 and F-Tuba 2182.
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