Stephen Brown (composer)
Stephen John Brown (born August 16, 1948) is a Canadian composer. He holds ARCT Diplomas in both Theory and Composition from the Royal Conservatory of Music and is an Associate of the Canadian Music Centre. Brown is Department Head of Theory and Composition at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, British Columbia, and an examination designer and syllabus design consultant for the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. He has twice served as a juror for the British Columbia Arts Council (performance & composition) and is a clinician and adjudicator in Western Canada.
His compositions include a symphony, a piano concerto, three song cycles, two overtures, two suites for orchestra, a canticle for soprano, chorus and string orchestra, an elegy for soprano and string orchestra, a missa brevis, and many chamber and solo works. Recently Brown has completed a piano quintet, a 17 movement work for solo piano, and his fourth suite for solo cello. He has taken a particular interest in pedagogical works, writing seven books of student pieces for piano, as well as, a book each for violin and flute. He has had many works performed at orchestral and solo concerts.
Performances include those by Erich Kunzel and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver and Victoria Symphony Orchestras and the Sidney Classical Orchestra (formerly the St. Cecilia Orchestra) in Sidney, British Columbia, of which he is the artistic director and conductor. Annually he conducts the Victoria Conservatory Senior Orchestra and Chorus. Concert programs have included Handel: Judas Maccabeaus, Haydn: Mass in Time of War and St. Cecilia Mass, Beethoven: Five Piano Concertos, the Choral Fantasy, the Triple Concerto, and Ah! Perfido, Mozart: Flute concerto and Piano Concertos, and the Bruch Violin Concerto.
Besides his love of classical music, he takes an active interest in early jazz, roots country, and blues, singing and playing piano and guitar with Stephen Brown and the Bastion Band in Victoria, British Columbia.
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