UK Wind Symphony Legacy Concert Series

Marcellus Brown is Director of Bands Emeritus at Boise State University. Under his leadership the university band program has become one of the outstanding wind band programs in the northwest. During Professor Brown’s tenure the Boise State University Symphonic Winds was invited and performed at the College Band Directors National Association National Conference held at the University of Washington as well as the 81^st American Bandmasters Association Annual Conference held in Reno, NV. Professor Brown has done extensive work as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States as well as in Canada and Australia.

Upon his retirement (May 2023) as Director of Bands at  Boise State University, Professor Brown accepted a position as a Visiting Professor in Wind Band Conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music during the 2023/24 academic school year..

Professor Brown has been and continues to be the Director of the Treasure Valley Concert Band since the fall of 1992. In 2007 he accepted the position of conductor for the Treasure Valley’s Hymns of Thanksgiving Orchestra. Professor Brown established the Boise State University Summer Chamber Music Camp which encourages and promotes the performance of chamber music for secondary school students and champions great composers from our past and contemporary composers (jazz, pop, broadway, and motion pictures) from the 20^th and 21st centuries.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Professor Brown holds a Master of Music Degree in Trumpet Performance and Bachelor of Music Education Degree from the University of Michigan. He has done doctoral work at the University of Illinois where he was a Graduate Assistant in the University Band program and studied conducting with Harry Begian, Illinois Professor Emeritus of Bands.

In 2005 Professor Brown was elected into the American Bandmaster Association. He has also presented at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic and at the All Northwest Music Educators Conference. During his tenue as Director of Bands at Boise State University he has been recognized for his work and dedication as an educator where he has been the recipient of the Excellence In Teaching Award, the Faculty/Staff Larry G. Selland Humanitarian Award and one of ten honored faculty to receive two Top Ten Student Scholar Awards. In December 2022 Professor Brown was honored to be the recipient of the National Band Association’s Al and Gladys Wright Distinguished Legacy Award.

Beginning January 2025 Professor Brown will serve as the visiting conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy Wind Symphony.