Dr. Gregory Brown [current CV (pdf)] is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at The College of Wooster, where he conducts the Wooster Chorus and teaches composition and music technology. He received his DMA in 2006 from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia, where he studied with Allen Crowell. He received his MM in 2001 from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, where he studied with Joseph Flummerfelt, Andrew Megill, and James Jordan.

Before coming to the College of Wooster, Dr. Brown taught and conducted at Amherst College, the University of Georgia, and The Putney School. In January of 2004, Dr. Brown was one of 6 conductors chosen from an international pool to take part in the 24th National Conductor's Symposium with Jon Washburn and the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Brown's experiences as a choral singer include concerts with the New York Philharmonic (including world premieres of works by Thomas Adés, Stephen Paulus, and Kaija Saariaho), the Philadelphia Orchestra (Beethoven's Missa Solemnis), and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Grammy-award winning recording of Dvořak's Requiem).

In 2006, Brown was invited to present a paper at an international symposium in Coimbra, Portugal, on the music of composer Fernando Lopes-GraŤa. Brown was chosen to present his analysis of Brahms's Gesang der Parzen at a poster session at the 2007 ACDA National Convention in Miami, FL. Dr. Brown is also an avid composer, having studied with 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner M. Lewis Spratlan, David Reck, Stefan Young, Adrian Childs, and Leonard V. ("Chic") Ball; and participated in master classes with Eric Ewazen, Simone Fontanelli, and others. His works have been performed throughout the East Coast, Tacoma, WA, and York, England.