About Timothy Brown
Timothy J. Brown is a composer who writes in a variety of styles and for a variety of media. Dr. Brown writes art songs, choral works, chamber music for standard and mixed ensembles, instrumental works as well as mixed ensemble works with voice, and large scale works. He finds a particular niche in creating works which are socially conscious. Some of his works deal with peace, drawing on texts from World War I. He is comfortable setting texts in a variety of languages; his works to date include English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Flemish.
One of his recent creations is a 30 minute set for Pierrot ensemble using poems by Paul Eluard. A current project is creating three unaccompanied choral works using poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
He wrote Dreams Kept, Dreams Deferred, a set of six pieces using poems by Langston Hughes, for soprano Liana Valente, DMA. The cycle was premiered in 2008 at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Excerpts were also performed at the national College Music Society meeting in 2008. Tenor Gregory Wiest performed the cycle in Munich, Germany, in March 2009.
Bass-baritone Shawn Roy and pianist Chan Kiat Lim will premiere a new song cycle, Returning, using six poems by soldiers returning home from World War I.
In 2008, he made a presentation at the Aspen Composers Conference on writing art songs.
Dr. Brown is equally comfortable with instrumental music composition.
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Composer | Contemporary Classical
College Music Society: Lecture RecitalThursday, October 22
11:30 Lecture-Recital: Eclectism: Song Cycles of American Composers from 1950 to the Present
Chan Kiat Lim (University of Louisiana-Lafayette)
Shawn Roy (University of Louisiana-Lafayette)
Voice RecitalThe Survivors and In Flanders, Poppies Red performed by Chan Kiat Lim and Shawn Roy, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Saturday, November 21, 2009.