Jeremy Brown

Jeremy Brown is an award-winning teacher, performer and Professor of Music at the University of Calgary where he currently leads the saxophone studio, serves as Performance Lead of Music and is Director of the Centre for Research in the Fine Arts. His collaborative jazz CD with Jack Wilkins, Saxophone Legacy (2022) was number one on !earshot, the Canadian National Jazz Chart in July, 2022. His classical saxophone CD emergence (2022) with new compositions by David Eagle, Vincent Ho, Nov Pon and Claude Lapalme, won Outstanding Classical Recording of the Year at the 2023 YYC Music Awards. Magnitudes, a free improvisation recording with Joe Morris was released in 2023 to critical acclaim on Downtown Music Gallery and by European critic Massimo Ricci who said “(Brown) reveals a whole universe of gorgeous phrasing that is both graceful on a formal level and somewhat unanticipated….” His Wayfaring (2014) recording by Nova Pon was nominated as the Outstanding Classical Composition of 2015 by the Western Canadian Music Awards. In 2010, his solo recording of Canadian solo and chamber music for saxophone, “Rubbing Stone,” was nominated as the Outstanding Classical Recording of the Year by the Western Canadian Music Awards. In 2009 he was recognized in Ottawa as a “Canadian Music Ambassador” by the Canadian Music Centre for his commissioning and performing music by Canadian composers, with about sixty works commissioned.