In 2005, Brown was awarded a CBDNA grant to attend the UNT Conducting Collegium where she studied with Eugene Corporon, Dennis Fisher, and Jack Stamp. Her other conducting workshop experiences include study at the University of Michigan with Michael Haithcock and Jerry Schweibert, and at Michigan State University with Kevin Sedatole, Robert Reynolds, Richard Floyd, and John Madden. In 2009 she received the Sigma Alpha Iota Conducting Scholarship and Doctoral Study Grant as well as the Chi Omega Graduate Education Grant.
While at UNCG, Brown was a member of the AA Brass Quintet, which won the 2001 International Brass Quintet Competition hosted by Fred Mills at the University of Georgia. As principal horn with the UNCG Wind Ensemble during her doctoral and master studies, she performed at both the 2009 National CBDNA Conference and at the 2000 Southern Division CBDNA Conference. She performed as a guest artist at the 2010 Focus on Piano Literature at UNCG as well as with the horn sections of the Boston Brass All Stars Big Band, North Carolina Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Long Bay Symphony, and the Brevard Music Center Orchestra. Brown has studied brass performance and pedagogy with Abigail Pack, J.D. Shaw, Freddy Martin, Jack Masarie, Dottie Bennett, Randy Kohlenberg, Richard Steffen, and Ed Bach.
Originally from Milan, Tenn., she is a graduate of Austin Peay State University where she was named “Outstanding Student in Music” and “Madame Governor.” Brown earned a master of music degree in horn performance and a master of music education degree in instrumental conducting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to her position at Georgia Tech, Brown was the assistant director of bands at Austin Peay State University for five years and also taught public school in both Wisconsin and Texas. Brown's previous marching experience includes membership in the 1994 Cadets of Bergen County and 1993 Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps. She has also previously been an instructor with Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps, McGavock High School Band, Father Ryan High School Band (Nashville, TN), and Kennesaw Mountain High School Band. Brown is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, GMEA, MENC, and CBDNA. She was awarded the Rose of Honor as a member of Sigma Alpha Iota Women’s Music Fraternity and was recently made an honorary member of both Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma.
2010 - DMA Instrumental Conducting, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
2001 - Master of Music, Music Education, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
2000 - Master of Music, Performance – Horn, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
1998 - BS Instrumental Music Education, Austin Peay State University
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MUSI 4813 - European Musical History
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MUSI 1102/2102/3012/4102 – Concert Band
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Maestro conducting system
The use of technology in music conductor training is a growing area of interest. The expressive, subtle, and meaning-rich gestures that are used in conducting, serve as fruitful ground for innovative research in areas such as artificial vision, gesture following, and musical mapping. While it is known that the kinesthetic skills of conducting are acquired through hours of intensive training, practice with real time audio and visual feedback is severely limited by availability, focus, and good will of live musicians. The current project, titled Maestro, builds upon previous work and provides a new approach for training beginning conductors: a system allowing the conductor to practice basic to advanced baton skills accompanied by a virtual orchestra that responds to the conductor’s baton gestures affecting tempo, duration, articulation, and dynamics. By incorporating gesture anticipation and tracking, machine learning for gesture analysis, utilization of physical modeling for high-quality audio, Maestro provides immediate feedback that is directly related to subtle variations of performed conducting gestures.
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Life and chamber ensemble works of American composer, Arthur Bird (1856 - 1923)
I am interested in bringing meaningful integration of technology to the area of music education, specifically the area of conducting pedagogy. I believe that technology has the possibility to have a substantial impact on the training of musicians. This could be quite important if it can allow for more effective practice of musical skills with instant, appropriate feedback without requiring the use of live musicians.
I also am involved in contributing to the research and solutions for improving gender equity, especially in the area of instrumental conducting. I want to bring more to the table than just current statistics and trends, but actually particpate in the improving the imbalance of women on the podium.
Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology