MEET JEREMY BROWN

Jeremy Brown is a Professor of Music at the University of Calgary, Performance Lead of the Music Division, and Director of the Centre for Research in the Fine Arts. As a musician with remarkably diverse accomplishments, he performs as a wind band conductor, a jazz, classical, and free improviser and is also an author and composer. He has served as the Artistic Director and conductor of the Calgary Wind Symphony for 25 years, a 60-member wind band founded in 1955. The CWS has commissioned and premiered numerous new works for wind band, including by Juno-award-winning composers Jordan Nobles and Allan Bell. He was elected as an Honorary member of the American Bandmasters Association in 2024, one of only a few Canadians so recognized.

He was awarded the “2024 University of Calgary Teaching Award” (Professor). In 2017, he was nominated for the “Students’ Union Teaching Award”, which he won in 1999 and in 2014, he was awarded the inaugural “University of Calgary Teaching Award” by the Faculty of Arts. At the 2023 YYC Music Awards, his recording of Canadian saxophone music, Emergence (Redshift Records), won the “Classical Recording of the Year. At the 2025 YYC Music Awards Intersections, a recording of original jazz compositions by Jeremy Brown with Audrey Ochoa won the “Jazz Recording of the Year.” Also, at the 2025 YYC Music Awards, Prevail, a recording by the Calgary Wind Symphony, directed by Jeremy Brown, won “Classical Recording of the Year.”

He was the saxophone soloist with the National Youth Band of Canada in 2015 and again as the conductor and artistic director in 2017—an unprecedented double role. He also served as the founding Artistic Director and conductor of the National Concert Band of Canada from 2002 to 2010, an auditioned youth band comprising students from across Canada. Jeremy Brown has been a Yamaha Performing Artist since 1997 and performs exclusively on Yamaha soprano, alto and tenor saxophones.