Darrell Brown

Darrell Brown is the Director of Bands in the Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA), where he conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and is the coordinator of the graduate wind conducting program both in Statesboro, Georgia and in Wexford, Ireland. He has held similar positions at Bradley University (Peoria, IL), Carroll University (Waukesha, WI), Brigham Young University–Idaho (Rexburg, ID), and Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, TX).

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Brown serves as the conductor of the Statesboro Chamber Orchestra at the Averitt Center for the Arts (Statesboro, GA), and he has previously held the positions of Interim Director of the Youth Symphony and Preparatory Orchestra for Youth Music Illinois (Peoria, IL); as the Musical Director and Conductor of the New Berlin Community Band (New Berlin, WI), Youth Wind Orchestra of Wisconsin (Waukesha, WI), and as the Assistant Bandmaster of the Civil War period instrument brass band, the 1st Brigade Band (Watertown, WI); with the Rexburg Tabernacle Orchestra (Rexburg, ID) and the Idaho Falls Youth Symphony (Idaho Falls, ID); the Corpus Christi Municipal Band (Corpus Christi, TX); and as the Assistant Director of the Utah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra (Orem, UT). Guest conducting engagements have included domestic engagements and abroad in Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Cuba, Perú, and Spain, and ensembles under his direction have performed at conferences of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), the Illinois Music Educators Association (ILMEA), the Wisconsin Music Educators Association (WMEA), and in 2026 at the Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) conference in Athens, GA.

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As an advocate for new music and wind band repertoire, Brown has commissioned and/or premiered over eighty new works for the medium and continues to be active in doing so on a regular basis, working closely in collaboration with composers such as David Maslanka, Nubia Jaime-Donjuan, Benjamin Taylor, Erika Svanoe, Joseph Sowa, Bárbara López Gondolbeu, José Ignacio Blesa-Lull, Rung-Radis Chanchampa, Lynnsey Lambrecht, Renato Goulart, Tom Davoren, Erberk Eryilmaz, Peter Ettrup Larsen, Rodrigo Lomán, Mohamad Abdelwahab Abdelfattah, Ricardo Ramírez Durán, Alicia Bradford, and others.

 

With a foot squarely rooted in music education, Dr. Brown has taught music at the Camelot Schools in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe and in the public schools of Sussex, Wisconsin; Las Vegas, Nevada; Agua Dulce, Texas; and Provo, Utah. He received his DMA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he studied with G. Thomas Leslie and worked with the renown UNLV Wind Orchestra. He received his MM in Instrumental Conducting and his BM in K-12 Instrumental Music Education from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.