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Joshua Branch

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Jonathan Brett

Conductors Academy, UK
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Member Bio Jonathan Brett is noted for his exceptional interpretative insight and flair combined with brilliance and clarity of technique. Added to a rare sense of daring, these attributes mean that his performances are imbued with a real sense of adventure. After early conducting studies in England, he went on to study with legendary Russian maestro, Yuri Simonov, later working as his assistant. For more than twenty years he was the Artistic Director of the English Classical Players, over the course of which he developed the orchestra into one of the country’s finest, noted for its opulently beautiful sound, and for the brilliant virtuosity and exuberant nature of its performances. A group of London’s finest musicians, from its roots as a classical chamber orchestra it developed into an ensemble playing in configurations from chamber ensemble to symphony orchestra in repertoire from baroque to contemporary. From 1996-2010 it was the resident orchestra at Watford Town Hall, a noted recording venue and probably the finest hall in England for orchestral performance. As a guest conductor he has appeared with orchestras all over the world, most particularly the Moscow Philharmonic. The first British conductor ever to be invited to work with them, he made his début in 2002 with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and subsequently appeared many times as a guest conductor in Moscow and on tour.
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Michael Brewer

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Member Bio Michael Brewer is a lifelong Classic City resident; he was born in Athens, Georgia and has lived in or near the area his entire life. Mr. Brewer is currently employed as a Web Developer Principal at The University of Georgia, is the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Classic City Band, Georgia’s oldest continuously-operating community band, and is also Secretary of the US PostgreSQL Association. A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of The University of Georgia, with degrees in music and mathematics, Mr. Brewer was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity. He has played trombone for the Athens Symphony for over 30 years; he also directed the Athens Brass Choir, a community brass ensemble he founded in 2002. Mr. Brewer was the Director of Music at Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Athens, GA) for seven years. He has studied choral conducting with Dr. Deanna Joseph and Dr. Daniel Bara, wind conducting with Dr. Robert Ambrose, Dr. Mallory Thompson, and Dr. H. Dwight Satterwhite, and orchestral conducting with Dr. Mark Parker, Albert Ligotti, and Mark Cedel. A member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), his compositions have been performed at The University of Georgia, Brevard Music Center, and the Interlochen Arts Camp; his orchestral arrangement A Christmas Carol Sing Along has been performed by the Athens Symphony on their Christmas concerts for two decades, and he also composed, orchestrated the score, and directed the pit orchestra for a one-act musical drama, Song of a Child.
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Giovani Briguente

Presbyterian College
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Member Bio Giovani Estéfano Briguente, a native of Brazil, holds an impressive number of degrees from respected institutions in both Brazil and the United States. In Brazil, Dr. Briguente earned degrees in flute performance, orchestral conducting, and wind band conducting from the Conservatory of Tatuí — one of the most important music schools in Latin America — along with a degree in flute performance from the Technical School of Arts of the State of São Paulo. During his time in the United States, Dr. Briguente earned a Master of Music in wind band conducting from the University of Minnesota Duluth and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree with emphasis on wind band conducting from the acclaimed University of Michigan. Furthermore, Dr. Briguente is deeply interested in the study of history, holding a bachelor’s degree in history with emphasis on cultural history from the University of Sorocaba (Brazil). Dr. Briguente’s passion for music, knowledge, and pedagogy have led him to develop a truly versatile and interdisciplinary career with international impact. As a conductor, Dr. Briguente’s knowledge and practical experience is comprised of work with various college and professional wind ensembles, athletic bands, percussion ensembles, chamber ensembles, string orchestras, symphony orchestras, and choruses. This includes the Symphonic Band of the Conservatory of Tatuí (Brazil), the University of Minnesota Duluth Wind Ensemble and Concert Band, Twin Ports Wind Orchestra, the University of Michigan Symphony Band, Chamber Winds, Concert Band, and Maize Band, the Symphonic Youth Wind Ensemble of Baden-Württemberg (Germany), among others. In addition, in 2019, Dr. Briguente was invited to conduct the United States Air Force Concert Band in Washington D.C. under the mentorship of the legendary Robert Reynolds. His conducting mentors also include Dario Sotelo, Mark Whitlock, and Michael Haithcock. Dr. Briguente’s career as a conductor includes work both on and off the podium. Since 2012, Dr. Briguente has founded and developed three ensembles: Camerata Corelli (independent semi-professional orchestra in Brazil), Youth Symphonic Band of the Conservatory of Tatuí (Brazil), and St. Thomas the Apostle School Band (Ann Arbor, MI). Given Dr. Briguente’s dedication to community service and engagement, an important component of all three ensembles has been a focus on reaching and inspiring new audiences and revitalizing those already present. Dr. Briguente is also an accomplished flutist and piccoloist, having performed with professional orchestras, wind bands, jazz bands, and early music ensembles. His years as the professional piccoloist of the Symphonic Band of the Conservatory of Tatuí (Brazil) are certainly one of the highlights of his performance career. Other highlights include performing in more than 10 international music festivals with emphasis on Brazilian popular music and early music performance practice and performing in flute masterclasses for renown flutists,
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Danny Brock

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Member Bio Dr. Danny Brock is completing a second Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Wind Conducting from the University of North Texas after graduating with his first DMA in Trumpet performance from the same institution. Prior to joining the Greenwood School of Music, Dr. Brock most recently held the position of Assistant Director of Bands at Independence High School in Frisco, Texas while serving as a member of the Professional Learning Community and Strategic Planning Committees for Frisco ISD. Dr. Brock comes to the Cowboy Marching Band with over a decade of knowledge and experience in the marching arts. He was cast as a member of the Tony award-winning Blast! for their 2019 tour of Japan and has been an instructor among multiple world class drum corps. Dr. Brock performed as a member of the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps, serving as horn sergeant, section leader, and soloist while earning the awards Rookie of the Year, Bluecoat of the Year, and a bronze medal within his time with the corps. As president and soprano cornet of the Dallas Brass Band, Dr. Brock founded the Dallas Youth Brass Band High School and Middle School ensembles to foster a passion for musical excellence and a lifelong appreciation for brass band among the youth brass musicians of Dallas-Fort Worth. While serving in the classroom as a private lesson instructor for Lewisville ISD, Keller ISD, and Northwest ISD, Dr. Brock also founded the Timber Creek and Byron Nelson High School Trumpet Ensembles. Both groups were the first high school trumpet ensembles to be invited among collegiate ensembles of the National Trumpet Competition in 2018 helping to catalyze the subsequent formation of its high school divisions. At Oklahoma State University, Dr. Brock will serve as Assistant Director of the Cowboy Marching Band, oversee the Spirit Band, teach courses in the music education curriculum, and assist with applied trumpet instruction.
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Jordan Brooks

Aiken Symphony
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Member Bio ordan Brooks is an orchestral and operatic conductor currently based in Columbia, South Carolina. He is currently the Assistant Conductor for the Aiken Symphony, Assistant Conductor for the University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra, and was previously Music Director of the university’s Campus Orchestra. At the University of South Carolina, Jordan studies with Dr. Scott Weiss and holds a Graduate Assistantship with the orchestra. Previously, he was the Assistant Conductor of the University of Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, cover conductor for the Delaware County Symphony and the Youth Orchestra of Bucks County Philharmonia, and Conductor in Residence with the Center City Chamber Orchestra. Also active as an operatic conductor, Jordan has served as Conductor with Opera at USC as music director and conductor for their 2024 production of She Loves Me and was assistant conductor for their 2023 production of Le Nozze di Figaro and their 2024 production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore. This past summer he was a Fellowship Conductor with Chicago Summer Opera for their productions of Puccini’s La Bohème and Handel’s Silla. He made his international conducting debut in Berlin, Germany in July 2023 as an Assistant Conductor at the Berlin Opera Academy, and has also been a student at Miami Music Festival’s Opera Conducting Bootcamp. Previous summer studies include Mostly Modern Festival and Conductors Retreat at Medomak. Jordan counts among his conducting teachers and mentors Scott Weiss, Kensho Watanabe, Thomas Hong, Andreas Delfs, and Kenneth Kiesler. Originally from the Philadelphia area, Jordan graduated from Temple University in 2021 where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in cello performance. He studied cello with John Koen of the Philadelphia Orchestra and has also worked with other members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and high-profile musicians in the area. At Temple, he was principal cello with the Temple University Symphony Orchestra and was involved in dozens of world premiers with local composers. He was also the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Temple University Repertory Orchestra.
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Dr. Emily Brown

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Member Bio Emily Freeman Brown is Music Director and Conductor of the Bowling Green Philharmonia and Opera Theater at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and author of the recently released Dictionary for the Modern Conductor (Rowman & Littlefield). In 2016 she was made Professor of Creative Arts Excellence at Bowling Green State University. The first woman to receive a doctorate in orchestral conducting at the Eastman School of Music, Ms. Brown has appeared as conductor with orchestras in the United States, Europe, Central Asia and South America including the Rochester Philharmonic, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Syracuse and Toledo Symphonies, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Eastman Virtuosi, Skaneateles Music Festival, Chicago Civic Orchestra, the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester (Germany), ​​the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony of Chile and the Bartók Ensemble, both in Santiago, the Sibiu State Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), the Macedonia National Symphony Orchestra, the National Soloists Orchestra in Astana, and Conservatory Symphony Orchestra of Almaty (Kazakhstan), the American Festival of the Arts (Houston), Interlochen and Chautauqua summer music institutes and the all-state orchestras in Texas, Iowa, Ohio, Missouri, Washington and Minnesota. Dr. Brown was in residence at the School of Music at the University of North Texas, conducting the School’s Symphony Orchestra and leading classes in orchestral conducting. She taught a summer conducting course at the Free University of Berlin for nine years in addition to conducting master classes at the Conservatory of Music in Riga, Latvia, Santiago, Chile and many others. Ms. Brown has recorded for Naxos, Albany and Opus One Records including seven disks with the Bowling Green Philharmonia under the title The Voice of the Composer; New Music from Bowling Green that have been featured in an internationally syndicated radio program. She served as Associate Conductor of the Eastman Philharmonia and Conductor for the Eastman Opera Theater and was a winner of the internationally known Affiliate Artists’ Conductor’s Program. In the summer and fall of 2017 she will conduct the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Orchestra in a series of recordings for Linn Records. In addition to her recent book Dr. Brown has published articles in the BACH journal and the Journal of the Conductors Guild. She served as President of the Conductors Guild, Inc. from 2003 to 2005. Ms. Brown studied conducting and cello at the Royal College of Music in London, England where she was twice winner of the Sir Adrian Boult Conducting Prize. Her major teachers have included Leonard Slatkin, Herbert Blomstedt, Franco Ferrara, David Effron and James Dixon.
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Taylor Brownfield

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Dr. Kathryn Brownlee

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Member Bio Dr. Kathryn D. “Cathy” Brownlee is the founder of the New Texas Symphony Orchestra and a Professor of Music at Dallas College Cedar Valley Campus. She founded the NTSO in 2004 to give amateur and volunteer musicians in Dallas the opportunity to perform in a full orchestral setting and to share the joy of music-making. From the start, she has championed distinctive repertoire, including works by women and composers of color, alongside other lesser-known yet extraordinary pieces. Dr. Brownlee served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the NTSO through its 21st season in 2025. She was recognized by The American Prize as the 2023 Conducting winner and received second-place recognition in Orchestral Programming. She has commissioned multiple works, most notably an early symphonic piece by Dallas composer Quinn Mason, whose work has since gained international recognition. She has collaborated with a wide range of guest artists in the Dallas area, including singer Denise Lee, the band Skinny Cooks, multiple Dallas Symphony Orchestra musicians and Dallas College faculty, international pianist Dr. Baya Kakouberi, and Sammons Jazz Artistic Director Arlington Jones. As a clinician and adjudicator, Dr. Brownlee has served schools across the DFW area and was honored to judge the National Strings Competition of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) in 2023. She is the Representation and Belonging Officer for the Dallas College Cedar Valley Campus Faculty Association and a member of the International Conductors Guild, Texas Community College Teachers Association, Texas Music Educators Association, and Sigma Alpha Iota. Dr. Brownlee holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University and a Master of Music Education and Artist Certificate in Conducting from The University of Texas at Arlington. She lives in southern Dallas County with her wife and two miniature schnauzers, where she enjoys DIY projects, tending the land, spending time with family—and sharing adventures with Dottie, her trusty John Deere tractor.
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Greg Brucker

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Member Bio Since 2004, Greg Brucker has spent his career educating youth musicians and conducting youth ensembles. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Music from UC Davis in 2001, he earned a Master’s Degree in Education and a Teaching Credential from the University of Phoenix in 2007. In Spring of 2024, Mr. Brucker earned a second Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting under the guidance of Maestro Ryan Murray at Sacramento State. Starting in 2004 and 2005, Mr. Brucker assumed the directorship of the Harper Jr. High and Emerson Jr. High Orchestras in Davis, Ca. Since its inception in 2007, Mr. Brucker has been the conductor of the Vivace Strings Orchestra of the Sacramento Youth Symphony and Academy of Music. For several years, he also worked as the primary brass, woodwind, and percussion sectional coach for the SYS’s Academic Symphony before it became just a string orchestra. Mr. Brucker also co-taught the Chamber and Symphony Orchestras at Davis Senior High School between 2007 and 2009, with duties including low strings, brass, woodwind, and percussion sectional director. Under a shared baton as junior high orchestra director in Davis, his Davis Combined Jr. High Advanced Orchestra was accepted into the ASTA National Orchestra Festival in Spring of 2010. That year, they were also named Best Jr. High Orchestra from Downbeat Magazine. From 2010-2022, Mr. Brucker directed The Emerson, Da Vinci & Harper Combined Jr. High Orchestra Program in Davis, Ca. His Combined Advanced Orchestra was thrice accepted into, and twice earned Unanimous Superior Ratings at California Music Educators Association’s All State Band and Orchestra Festival (2013, 2014, and 2016)—the only multi-site combined ensemble to have achieved this level of accolade. In 2012, Mr. Brucker was selected as CMEA-Capitol Section Honors Orchestra Conductor for the Middle School Orchestra. His involvement continued until 2018 as the organizer of the regional Honors Orchestras. Starting summer 2022, Mr. Brucker began studying voice and vocal pedagogy with San Francisco Conservatory Vocal Pedagogy Professor Rebecca Plack. In Fall 2022, Mr. Brucker began his next chapter as overall music director of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Junior High School in Davis, California. In April 2023, Mr. Brucker received the “Outstanding Orchestral Educator” award from the California Music Educators Association-Capitol Section. Recently, Mr. Brucker was selected as the CMEA-Capitol Section Middle School Honors Orchestra Director for the 2025 Honors Orchestras and received an award as an “Arts Hero” for the DJUSD from the Sacramento Friends of the Arts. As a performing musician, Mr. Brucker has held the Principal Double Bass Chair for The Folsom Lake Symphony since 2010, is a regular substitute in the bass section of the Stockton Symphony. He has also performed with the Merced, Apollo, and Solano Symphonies, along with holding the Principal Double Bass Chair of many community orchestras in the Sacramento Valley since 2000. He also runs the Davis Bass Studio, open since 2004, boasting former double bass students’ acceptance into conservatories around the United States and Europe. As well, Mr. Brucker spent six years studying trombone, five years studying and performing baroque music 2 / 2 with the UC Davis Baroque Ensemble under baroque violin master Michael Sand and harpsichordist Phebe Craig, and spent five years studying and performing avant-garde and improvisatory jazz with saxophone great John Tchicai. In 2010, he performed with avant-garde folk recording artist Jandek and has joined many local jazz and rock musicians in different groups over the last 20 years singing and playing bass for the groups. Mr. Brucker has dedicated time to ensure passage of every Davis Schools Parcel Tax campaign effort since 2007, continuing access to music education. As a tribute to his passionate advocacy for arts education funding that continues today, Mr. Brucker was recognized as a “For-ward Thinker” by the organization California Forward, in 2012, for his efforts to preserve music and arts education in public schools during a time of statewide financial crisis. In 2013, Mr. Brucker received the Hal Reid Faculty award from the Emerson Jr. High PTA and greater community for his greater work in educational advocacy and for “demonstrating leadership in a variety of areas and show extraordinary dedication to their school and students.” From 2011–2017, 2020–22, he served as a Davis Teachers Association Site Representative at Harper and Emerson Jr. High Schools, respectively. Mr. Brucker, his wife Laura, and their two children, currently reside in Davis, California. .
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