Velvet Brown
Velvet Brown is an internationally recognized orchestral and chamber tubist, composer and educator. She is the principal tubist of the Altoona Symphony Orchestra and has served as principal with the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra from 1989-2004, and as substitute or additional tubist with the Detroit Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, San Francisco Women's Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra.
Brown is associate professor of tuba and euphonium at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, she taught at Bowling Green State University, Ball State University, and served as an associate director of university bands at Boston University, where she holds a master's of music degree. She holds a bachelor's in music from West Virginia University.
She 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. She has performed with Junction, a female tuba-euphonium quartet.
She composed "Te Dago Mi", a duet for tuba and euphonium with piano.
Ms. Brown is an alumni brother of the Omicron Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at West Virginia University. She was initiated into the fraternity on November 8, 1981.
Ms. Brown was inducted as an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority, Incorporated in February 2009 by the Eta Delta Chapter located at Howard University.
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