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Staff
Dr. Anthony Brown, Artistic Director
Percussionist, composer, educator, and ethnomusicologist Anthony Brown has played a seminal role in contemporary California creative music from his pioneering work with the Asian American jazz movement in the early 1980s to his current leadership of the Asian American Orchestra. Under his direction, the Orchestra has recorded three critically acclaimed CDs, completing a trilogy of homages to American composers Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and George Gershwin. His composition Rhymes (For Children) served as the theme music for KQED's Pacific Time, a Public Radio International syndicated weekly newsmagazine. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Master of Music from Rutgers University, and is the recipient of numerous grants and commissions from organizations such as Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International, and Asian Heritage Council. A Smithsonian Associate Scholar, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow, Dr. Brown has served as Curator of American Musical Culture at the Smithsonian Institution and as a Visiting Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been Fifth Stream Music's Artistic Director since its establishment in 2005.
Dr. Anthony Brown, Artistic DirectorPercussionist, composer, educator, and ethnomusicologist Anthony Brown has played a seminal role in contemporary California creative music from his pioneering work with the Asian American jazz movement in the early 1980s to his current leadership of the Asian American Orchestra. Under his direction, the Orchestra has recorded three critically acclaimed CDs, completing a trilogy of homages to American composers Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and George Gershwin. His composition Rhymes (For Children) served as the theme music for KQED's Pacific Time, a Public Radio International syndicated weekly newsmagazine. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Master of Music from Rutgers University, and is the recipient of numerous grants and commissions from organizations such as Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International, and Asian Heritage Council. A Smithsonian Associate Scholar, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow, Dr. Brown has served as Curator of American Musical Culture at the Smithsonian Institution and as a Visiting Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been Fifth Stream Music's Artistic Director since its establishment in 2005.
For more information about Dr. Brown, please visit www.anthonybrown.org.
