The Averitt Center for the Arts in downtown Statesboro is giving a warm welcome to its new director of the Statesboro Chamber Orchestra, Dr. Darrell Brown.
Darrell Brown is a conductor, composer, and educator. He is also the Director of Bands in the Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University, where he conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and is the coordinator of the graduate wind conducting program.
As an orchestral conductor, Dr. Brown has held positions as the interim director of the Youth Symphony and Preparatory Orchestra of Youth Music Illinois in Peoria, Illinois, the Carroll University Chamber Orchestra in Waukesha, Wisconsin, as the musical director and conductor of both the Rexburg Tabernacle Orchestra and the Idaho Falls Youth Symphony in Idaho, and as the assistant director of the Utah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra.
As an active guest conductor, he has led recent concert engagements in Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Cuba, Spain, and Brazil. Equally comfortable with the wind band, Darrell has held conducting positions with the New Berlin Community Band, the Youth Wind Orchestra of Wisconsin, and as the assistant bandmaster of the Civil War brass band, the 1st Brigade Band—all in Wisconsin—and as the conductor of the Corpus Christi Municipal Band in Texas.
As an educator, he has taught music in higher education in Illinois, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Texas, and in the public schools in Wisconsin, Nevada, Texas, and Utah, as well as at the Camelot Schools in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe.
As an active composer, Dr. Brown writes music for a wide array of ensembles and has music published through Murphy Music Press. He is active in many musical organizations and is part of the administrative team for the international wind band organization the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE).
Dr. Brown is a conducting student of Maestro Thomas G. Leslie, whom he studied with at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He holds additional degrees in music from Brigham Young University and Ricks College.
Join the Averitt Center for a welcome party and reception on Thursday, August 29, 2024, in the Main Gallery of the Averitt Center (33 E. Main St., Statesboro GA).