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  • Wind conductor Marcellus Brown appointed to Jacobs School of Music faculty

Wind conductor Marcellus Brown appointed to Jacobs School of Music faculty

Friday, July 21, 2023

Marcellus Brown(View full resolution version of this image) Marcellus Brown.  Courtesy photo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of wind conductor Marcellus Brown as visiting professor of music in bands, effective Aug. 1.

He was previously director of bands at Boise State University, where he led the wind band program to become one of the most outstanding in the northwest. Prior to his appointment at Boise, he served as director of bands and professor of trumpet at Chicago State University and Augustana College.

“We are very excited to welcome Marcellus Brown to our faculty,” said Eric Smedley, chair of the Department of Bands. “Marcellus has had a storied career, and we’re thrilled that he is willing to delay his retirement plans to join us for the 2023-24 school year. He will bring a high level of artistry and a wealth of experience that will enrich the lives of our students.”

Brown has done extensive work as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States as well as in Canada and Australia. He served a two-year term as president of the College Band Directors National Association Northwest Division and was elected to a two-year term to serve on the board of the National Band Association. He currently serves on the selection panel for the National Band Association William D. Revelli Composition Contest.

He has been director of the Treasure Valley Concert Community Band since fall 1992. In 2007, he accepted the position of conductor for the Treasure Valley’s Hymns of Thanksgiving Orchestra. In addition, he established the Boise State University Summer Chamber Music Camp, which encourages and promotes the performance of chamber music for secondary school students and champions great composers from the past and contemporary composers (jazz, pop, Broadway, and motion pictures) from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Brown holds a Master of Music in Trumpet Performance degree and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Michigan, where he took conducting classes with Elizabeth Green. He did doctoral work at the University of Illinois, where he was a graduate assistant in the University Band program and studied conducting with Harry Begian.

While director of bands at Boise State, Brown was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Faculty/Staff Larry G. Selland Humanitarian Award. He was also one of 10 faculty to receive two Top-Ten Student Scholar Awards. In December 2022, he was honored with the National Band Association’s Al and Gladys Wright Distinguished Legacy Award.

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