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“My School of Music colleagues and I are thrilled to receive the David P. Stone Chair and that the first recipient is to be Professor Brown,” said David Frego, director of the School of Music. “Velvet is a true global artist and educator. Her five-year plan for the use of the proceeds from the endowed chair will enhance the mission of the school and the college.”
Brown, who joined the Penn State faculty in 2003, enjoys a professional career as an international soloist, chamber ensemble performer, recording artist, composer, conductor and orchestral player. She recently served as principal tuba with the Hope and Harmony Ensemble, which recorded a video of fanfares for the 2021 Presidential Inauguration. Brown has made regular appearances throughout Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Finland, France, England, Hungary, Slovenia, Russia, Japan, Cuba, Canada and the United States. Many of her successful students have obtained prestigious playing and teachi
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Julia Bullock’s gifts as a soprano have been well established in the Bay Area, from her star-is-born 2013 turn in “West Side Story” at the San Francisco Symphony through her lead role four years later in the world premiere of John Adams’ “Girls of the Golden West” at the San Francisco Opera.
But her ambitions have always gone well beyond performing. Bullock, 34, made an early splash with a stage show she created around the life and work of the Jazz Age singer Josephine Baker, and now she is poised to reveal her newest curatorial project, a wonderfully eclectic musical program titled “Lineage.”