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M.M., Westminster Choir College; D.M.A., University of Georgia
 Dr. Gregory Brown is Assistant Director of Choral Activities and Lecturer at Smith College in Northampton, MA, where he conducts the Smith College Chorus and teaches conducting, choral literature, and sight-singing.
Brown recently completed a year as
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Director
of Choral Activities at The College of Wooster, where he conducted the
Wooster Chorus and taught composition and music technology. Brown received
his DMA in 2006 from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University
of Georgia, where he studied with Allen Crowell. He received his MM in
2001 from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, where he studied
with Joseph Flummerfelt, Andrew Megill, and James Jordan.
Before coming to the College of Wooster, Dr. Brown taught and conducted at Amherst
College, the University of Georgia, and The Putney School. In January of
2004, Dr. Brown was one of 6 conductors chosen from an international
pool to take part in the 24th National Conductor's Symposium with Jon
Washburn and the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Brown's experiences as a
choral singer include concerts with the New York Philharmonic (including
world premieres of works by Thomas Adés, Stephen Paulus, and Kaija
Saariaho), the Philadelphia Orchestra (Beethoven's Missa Solemnis), and
the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Grammy-award winning recording of
Dvořak's Requiem).
Dr. Brown is an active scholar, serving as Associate Editor of The Choral Scholar, the online journal of the National Collegiate Choral Organization.
In 2006, he was invited to present a paper at an
international symposium in Coimbra, Portugal,
on the music of composer
Fernando Lopes-Graça. Brown was chosen to present his analysis of
Brahms's Gesang der Parzen at a poster session at the 2007 ACDA National
Convention in Miami, FL.
Brown is an avid composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music with performances throughout the United States and Europe. His studies were taken with 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner Lewis Spratlan, Stefan Young, Adrian Childs, and Leonard V. ("Chic") Ball. His recent commissions for vocal ensemble New York Polyphony have been heard on American Public Media's Performance Today, Kansas Public Radio, and Danish National Radio; and his latest major work, the Missa Charles Darwin, was featured at a recent TEDx event in Woods Hole, MA.
Recent commissions include works for New York Polyphony, Athens Guitar Trio, Longmeadow High School Accidentals, Manhattan Choral Ensemble,
and the Machine Project's Little William Theater Festival of New Music. Upcoming commissions include the concluding piece for the 2012 Five-College Choral Festival in Northampton, MA, and a new work for the Da Camera Singers.
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