Dr. JEREMY S. BROWN

Professor and former Head of Music University of Calgary

Jeremy S. Brown is Professor and Head of the Music Department at the University of Calgary where teaches saxophone.

 In 1999 he was awarded the University of Calgary Student’s Union Teaching Excellence Award. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Ohio State University. Dr. Brown has published numerous articles in the Instrumentalist, Journal of Band Research, Journal of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Saxophone Symposium, Canadian Band Journal, International Society for the Investigation of Wind Music and Canadian Winds. He is a contributing editor to Canadian Winds.

As a saxophonist and woodwind specialist, he has performed professionally with many artists including Johnny Mathis, Paul Anka, Mel Torme, Bob Hope, Holly Cole, musicals such as Chorus Line West Side Story Showboat, Wizard of Oz and has performed as a soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kensington Sinfonia as well as many other orchestras and bands. He performed at the 1997 World Saxophone Congress in Valencia, Spain in the European premier of works by composers Kelly-Marie Murphy and Allan Gordon Bell. At the 2000 World Saxophone Congress in Montreal he premiered works by David Eagle and Tim Brady with pianist Jennifer Snow. Altogether, he has commissioned more than twenty new works for saxophone by Canadian composers. He has also been artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre. Artistic Director Isobel Rolston calls him “A distinguished teacher and performer.”

He has recorded for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a solo saxophonist numerous times and premiered Fallibility, Logic and the Return of Wonder by Kelly-Marie Murphy with the Calgary Philharmonic in 2002 and again in the United States premier of the work at the 2003 World Saxophone Congress in Minneapolis. His recordings in recital and on record have been played many times across Canada. His new CD recording, In the Company of my Soul, with pianist Charles Foreman, was released in 2003.

As a jazz saxophonist and composer, his ensemble Verismo has recorded for the CBC program Jazz Beat in 2005 that included original compositions by members of Verismo Verismo.. has also appeared at the Calgary International Jazz Festival and have been in-residence at the Banff Centre. 
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He is the featured soloist on the compact disc recording Scaramouche with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. His performances have met with considerable critical acclaim: Calgary Herald: “afforded Brown the opportunity to tease a wide variety of tone colors from his instrument and to shape the expressive phrases with delicacy and poise.” (November 10, 2002) American Record Guide: Saxophone soloist Jeremy Brown’s creamy smoothness, graceful elegance, and singing tone are ideally suited to Milhaud’s Scaramouche. Maestro Graf offers such a jazzy and spirited orchestral backdrop that for once I did not miss the original two-piano scoring. (December 2002)

Dr. Brown is Vice-President of the Concert Band division of Musicfest and conductor of the Canadian National Concert Band that is performing in 2006 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. He is also associate conductor of the Alberta Winds and has appeared as guest conductor of the Calgary Civic Symphony and Altius Brass. He is the former music director of the Calgary Concert Band. In the Summer of 2004, the Calgary Concert Band appeared at the Mid-European Music Conference in Schladming, Austria. In addition, his jazz group SAXOFFONEE was invited to perform at the 1997 Montreux Jazz Festival and also performed at festivals in Brienz, Verbier and Brunnen. In 1996 the University of Calgary Symphonic Band, under his direction performed to considerable critical acclaim at the Western Conference of the College Band Director’s National Association in Reno, Nevada.




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