Philip Brown, trombone

Department: Instrumental Performance
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Email: pbb@u.washington.edu
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Philip Brown is principal trombone with the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra and Northwest Sinfonietta. He frequently performs with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, and Pacific Northwest Ballet, and has appeared as a guest trombonist with the Honolulu Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and New World Symphony.

Brown is active as a studio musician, having performed on over sixty soundtracks for major motion pictures, television, and video games. He has also recorded with the Seattle Symphony for their release of American Classics – William Schuman Symphonies No. 7 and 10 and with the New World Symphony for New World Jazz.

Brown studied with Raymond Premru at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he received a BM degree. He was awarded a Graduate Fellowship to attend the University of Minnesota, where he was a student of Thomas Ashworth and earned a MM degree. Brown is near completion of a DMA degree at the University of Washington, studying with Don Immel. Among his other teachers are Raymond Conklin, Chris Olka, Douglas Wright, Ko-Ichiro Yamamoto, and Ed Zadrozny.

Brown’s abilities as a soloist have earned him numerous awards in competition. He was recently named as a winner of the 2006 Ladies Musical Club of Seattle Solo Competition and Tour. In 2000, Brown was awarded the Twin Cities Musicians Union Prize at the Minnesota Orchestra Volunteer Association Solo Competition and first prize at the Schubert Club Collegiate/Graduate Brass Competition. He has twice been a finalist at the prestigious international Zellmer–Minnesota Orchestra Trombone Competition. In 1992, Brown was the national winner of the Music Teachers National Association Senior Brass Competition, and in 2005, he was thrilled to return to the same MTNA national competition as an adjudicator.

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