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B.M. Mansfield University, M.M. Michigan State University,
D.M.A. (candidate) Michigan State University.
Matthew K. Brown, a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, began his musical studies
on the classical guitar at the age of seven and started playing the tuba at the
age of fifteen. At the age of seventeen he became the grand-prize winner of the
Pennsylvania Sinfonia Concerto Competition, and made his concerto debut with the
Pennsylvania Sinfonia later that same year to rave reviews: “Brown was
exciting…..a tour de force!” (Allentown Morning Call); “The best performance of
the {Vaughn Williams} tuba concerto I recall hearing!” (Bethlehem Globe Times) .
While a tuba student at Boston University, he studied with Sam Pilafian of the
Empire Brass Quintet, and began his professional chamber music career as tubist
and founding member of the award-winning Paramount Brass Quintet. Mr. Brown went
on to study at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University
with David Fedderly, principal tubist of the Baltimore Symphony. From 1991
through 1993, Mr. Brown was a member of the Washington Brass Quintet, based in
Washington, D.C.
A founding member of the Avatar Brass Quintet, he has performed hundreds of
concerts throughout the United States, including weekly internationally
televised performances from the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida. Mr. Brown is an active arranger, having arranged and
transcribed over one hundred pieces for various brass ensembles, many of which
are published by his own publishing company – Hawkeye Music Publications.
Mr. Brown has held the principal tuba position with the Palm Beach Opera
Orchestra, and has also performed with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, the
New World Symphony, the Miami City Ballet, Ballet Florida, the Greater Lansing
Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony, Alea III, and Ensemble 21.
From 1994 through 2000, he served as a member of the Artist Faculty at the
prestigious Harid Conservatory of Music (now the Lynn University Conservatory)
in Boca Raton, FL, where he taught applied tuba, coached chamber music, and
conducted the brass ensemble. He has also served on the faculty at the Blue Lake
Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan, Michigan State University, and Florida
Atlantic University where he was a Schmidt Distinguished Teaching Fellow.
Currently, Mr. Brown resides in Reading, Pennsylvania with his wife and two
daughters. In addition to performing and conducting, he is well known as an avid
collector and dealer of antique phonographs, and
researcher/lecturer/impersonator of John Philip Sousa. He teaches tuba and
euphonium at Millersville University. In addition to performing with the
Pennsylvania Brass, the
Rodney Mack Philadelphia Big Brass, and the Cosmopolitan
Tuba Quartet, Matt freelances throughout the northeast.
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