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Art Brownlow is Associate Professor of Music at UTB/TSC, where he has taught for 12 years. A trumpeter, Dr.Brownlow performs with the brass quintet Border Brass, and as prinicpal trumpet of the Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Valley Sinfonette. He received a Bachelor of Music Education from Furman University, a Master of Music in trumpet from Northwestern University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in trumpet from the University of Texas at Austin. His teachers include Vincent Cichowicz, formerly of the Chicago Symphony; Raymond Crisara, formerly principal trumpet in Toscanini's NBC Symphony; Larry Black of the Atlanta Symphony; and the late Helmut Wobish, formerly of the Vienna Philharmonic.
In addition to his current affliliations, Dr. Brownlow has performed with the South Texas Chamber Orchestra, the University of North Carolina Faculty Brass Quintet, the Foothills Brass Quintet (Greenville, SC), the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, the Greenville Brass Qunitet, the Wheaton (IL) Summer Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony (Raleigh), the North Carolina Bach Festival (Raleigh), the Winston-Salem Symphony, (IL) the Augusta (GA) Symphony, and the Lake Forest (IL) Symphony. He has also played with the Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus Band, the Red Skelton Show, and at the Carowinds Amusement Park in Charlotte, NC. Recently, Dr. Brownlow performed in the inaugural concert of the 1996 Festival Internacional de Otoño in Matamoros, Mexico.
In the summers of 1979 and 1980, Dr. Brownlow performed as a member of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC, and at the Festival dei Due Monde in Spoleto, Italy. During the festivals, Dr. Brownlow played in an orchestra that accompanied a production of Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera The Medium, which was directed by the composer. He also performed in Stravinsky's Octet for Winds, which was taped and rebroadcast on the national Public Broadcasting System. While at Spoleto, Dr. Brownlow performed under world-renowned conductors Christopher Keene, Yuri Ahronovich, and Christian Badea.
Dr. Brownlow's teaching duties at the UTB/TSC include: applied trumpet instruction, music literature, music history, conducting, brass instrument methods, and music appreciation. Before coming to Brownsville, he previously taught at North Greenville College in Tigervilee, SC, and at Lander University in Greenwood, SC. He also held a one-year teaching assistantship in musicology at the University of North Carolina.
Dr. Brownlow's academic and musical honors include graduating cum laude from Furman University in 1976; selection for membership in the Alpha Chapter, Northwestern University, of Pi Kappa Lambda, National Music Honor Society, in 1978; and selection for membership in the University of Texas Gradute Honor Society in 1989. Dr. Brownlow holds memberships in several professional organizations, including the International Trumpet Guild, the Historic Brass Society, the American Musicology Society, the College Music Society, and the Texas Music Educators Association.
Dr. Brownlow has also been active in scholarly activities and publishing. In the fall of 1985, his paper, Menotti and the Critics, was chosen to be read at the Natinal Opera Association Convention in the Lousiville, KY. And in July 1995, he presented a paper entitled The Literature of the English Slide Trumpet at the first International Historic Brass Symposium at Amherst, MA. He has written articles for The Instrumentalist magazine (The Mute Contemporary trumpet Performance, in the May 1978 issue), and The Opera Journal (Menotti and the Critics, from the 1986 issue). In October of 1996, Dr. Brownlow's first book, (published by Pendragon Press of Stuyvesant, NY.)
The Last trumpet: A History of the English Slide Trumpet, is a joint project between Pedragon Press and the Historic Brass Society, and the first offering in a new series of books entitled, Bucina: The Historic Brass Society Series. |
