Carolyn Brown

Associate Professor of Music

office: SFAC 115
phone: 501-450-5771
email: carolynb@uca.edu
Link: Artist Roster for Miyazawa Flutes
Teaching specialty: Flute

DMA and Performer's Certificate Eastman School of Music
MM University of Kansas
BME Wartburg College

Carolyn Brown, Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Central Arkansas and Principal Flute with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, began her musical education as a young girl, studying piano with her mother and flute with her father. She continued her education at Wartburg College, the Conservatory of Music in Kansas City, the University of Kansas and received her doctorate in Flute Performance and Literature from Eastman School of Music where she studied with Bonita Boyd. During her residency at Eastman, she was the only woodwind candidate to be unanimously nominated by the Eastman faculty for the prestigious Performer’s Certificate.

Ms. Brown has been the top prize winner in a number of competitions, including the 1995 Myrna Brown International Artist Competition. The Arkansas Times has described her playing as “achingly beautiful” and “gorgeous” and in 1996 she was named “Arkansas’ Best Classical Musician” of the year by that paper. Ms. Brown has been a featured soloist with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra several times, most recently performing the Flute Concerto by Christopher Rouse.

She and her husband, Carl Anthony (principal keyboardist with the ASO), perform frequently throughout the U.S. and abroad as the Dionysus Duo. The duo performed in recital for President-elect and Mrs. Clinton shortly after he was elected in 1992 and the duo performed at the NFA’s National Conventions in Dallas, St. Louis and Kansas City. A tour of China in 1995 included performances and masterclasses in the major conservatories of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai.

The Dionysus Duo has recorded a CD of Ms. Brown’s original transcriptions of music by Amy Beach, Clara Schumann and Clara Rogers. The CD is available from Carolyn Nussbaum Music or by contacting Carolyn Brown directly.