Velvet Brown

After discussing the Stiletto Brass I decided to look into one of the females in the group, Velvet Brown. Velvet Brown is a professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Pennsylvania State University. Before her time at Penn State, she taught at Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and Ball State University (Indiana) and served as an associate director of University Bands at Boston University. 

On top of being a founding board member of the International Women’s Brass Conference, Ms. Brown was one of the founding members of the Stiletto Brass. Brown is currently the principal tubist of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra and the Altoona Symphony Orchestra. She has also served as principal tuba with the River City Brass band, San Francisco Women’s Philharmonic, and many other orchestras around the country.

I decided to look into a recording of hers and found she wrote a CD called Simply Velvet. I hope you enjoy a little of her playing, I found it to be quite impressive.