Jay Brown's Retirement Concert

Jay Brown is a Professor in the Music Department of Miami Dade College, Kendall Campus, and has taught here since 1974. He has been music director and conductor of the Community Orchestra, Concert Band, and Woodwind Ensemble. He has conducted two major choral festival concerts with the combined choruses of Miami Dade College, accompanied by the Florida Philharmonic.

Jay Brown is a graduate of Ithaca College in New York and holds a Masters degree in Conducting from the University of Miami. He studied conducting with Frederick Fennell, the founder of the Eastman Wind ensemble and was his orchestral and wind ensemble conducting assistant while at the University of Miami. He was also the musical director and conductor of the American Musical Theater in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1969 and 1970.

In addition to conducting, Jay Brown is known internationally as a performer on Musical Glasses or Glass Harp. He performs frequently in the Miami area, at Florida Renaissance Festivals and for students on campus in concert and in the music classes he teaches.

Currently he teaches many sections of Music Appreciation, specializing in providing students with a broad listening experience and placing the development of music in Western Civilization within the broader field of the history of ideas.

Come see Jay Brown's Retirement concert on Thursday, March 19th at 7:30 p.m. at the McCarthy Auditorium, Room 6120, at Miami Dade College, Kendall Campus. The event is free and open to the public.