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Velvet Brown enjoys a professional career as an international soloist and chamber ensemble performer, recording artist, conductor and orchestral player. She has made regular appearances throughout Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Finland, France, England, Hungary, Russia, Japan, Canada and the United States. Ms. Brown is currently the principal tubist of the Altoona Symphony Orchestra, the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, and the River City Brass Band. She has served as substitute or additional tubist with the Detroit Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, San Francisco Women's Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. She has also garnered high praise as a founding and current member of the Monarch Brass Quintet and Brass Ensemble, the Junction Tuba Quartet, the Garda Duo, and as frequent soloist with the Percussion Plus Project..
Velvet Brown is associate professor of tuba and euphonium at the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, she taught at Bowling Green State University (Ohio), Ball State University (Indiana), and served as an associate director of University Bands at Boston University. She has had many successful students who have been prizewinners at various regional, national and international competitions. Currently, Ms. Brown is serving as the secretary of the Executive Committee of the International Tuba and Euphonium Association (ITEA), and she is also a board member of the International Women's Brass Conference. Ms. Brown is noted for receiving the 1999-2000 William Fulbright Fellowship Vinciguerra Award.
She has released three solo CDs ("Velvet," "Music for Velvet" and "Perspectives in Rhythm") for Crystal Records, and a CD for the Nicolai Music Label performing music by Neal Corwell. Velvet Brown can also be heard on the Bowling Green Philharmonia's "Composer's Voice - Volume IV" recording (Albany) in her interpretation of John Williams' Tuba Concerto.
Velvet Brown is a Meinl-Weston artist performing on the MW 2182 and the MW 2000 tubas.
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