Douglas C Brown Jr

Description

You can look me up at www.djviolin2000.com. Professional violinist, seeking opportunities for professional Orchestra, Chamber, Gigs & Ensemble work. I have 16 years of experience having begun my journey at eight years old. I have a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited conservatory in Virginia.

Biography

Education
Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester VA – Violin Performance Major 2018-2022
Studied for Bachelor of Music Performance
Orchestra, Ensembles, Solo Performances, Opera
Modern and Classical Works​
Classwork in Music History, Music Theory, Conducting
Woodside Arts Magnet, Newport News VA - Violin Performing Arts 2014-2018
High School Diploma
Honor’s Orchestra, Concertmaster
Solo Performances, Ensembles, Music Theory
Experience
Shenandoah Conservatory Ensembles ... 2018-2022
Shenandoah Junior & Senior Recitals 2021-2022
George Frideric Handel, Sonata IV in D Major, HWV 371
Alexander Glazunov, Violin Concerto in A Minor, op. 82
Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006
​I. Preludio
Johann Sebastian Bach, Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041,
I. Allegro moderato
Camille Saint-Saens, Violin Concerto, op. 61,
I. Allegro non troppo
Pablo de Sarasate, Introduction et Tarantelle
Credo Advanced Performance Ensemble, Oberlin College & Chicago, IL 2018
Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Employment, Gloria Shows,
Assistant Concertmaster 2016-2018
Worship Musician, WOW Center 2020-2019
Williamsburg Chamber Ensembles 2013-2018
Suzuki Violin Studio 2007-2015
Orchestra Experience
Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra 2018-2022
Woodside High School Orchestra, Concertmaster 2014-2018
Southeastern Virginia Regional Orchestra 2015-2017
All City Orchestra, Concertmaster 2016-2017
Williamsburg Youth Orchestra 2014-2017
Williamsburg Concert Orchestra, Concertmaster 2013-2014
Music Festivals
Credo Summer Music Festival, Oberlin College 2018
Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, East Carolina University 2017
Odyssey Summer Music Festival, MIZZOU 2016
New York Summer Music Festival, SUNY 2014, 2015
Professional Level Teachers
Akemi Takayama - Shenandoah Conservatory
Pavel Ilyashov - Private Studio
Master Classes, Awards, & Competitions
Offered scholarships to Eastern Music Festival & Brevard Music Festival (2022)
Joseph Silverstein, Selected for Solo Masterclass (2015)
Odyssey Music Festival Concerto Competition - Kol Neidre by Bruch –1st Place (2016)
WYO Concerto Competition – Louis Spohr, Concerto No. 2, 1stMov. - Honorable Mention (2015)
5 College Scholarships - Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, Opus 64, 1st Mov (2018)
Scottish Fiddle Competition Winner Highland Games – (2012) Read More

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Experience

Recent Repertoire
Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
-Igor Stravinsky
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
-Claude Debussy
D’un matin de printemps
-Lili Boulanger
Symphony No. 8 in F Major, op. 93
-Ludwig van Beethoven
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
-Gustav Mahler
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
-Richard Strauss
Overture to Dardanus
-Jean-Philippe Rameau
La fille d'Opera
-Germaine Tailleferre
Overture to The Barbar of Seville
-Gioachin Rossini
Le bel ambitieux
-Germaine Tailleferre
Pizzicato
-Vivian Fung
Syphonic ... Variations on an African Air, op. 63
-Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43
-Sergei Rachmaninoff
Variations on an Originial Theme for Orchestra, op. 36
-Edward Elgar
-Darius Milhaud
Suite op. 157b for Clarinet, Violin & Piano
-Johan S Bach
Violin Concerto in A Minor
-Camille Saint-Saens
Violin Concerto, op. 61
-Pablo de Sarasate
Introduction et Tarantelle
-William Grant Still
From the Hearts of Women (Opera)
-Samuel Barber
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op. 24
-Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Quiet City for Strings, Trumpet & English Horn
-Aaron Copeland
Appalachian Spring, Suite 13
-Aaron Copeland​
Harmony - Improv Read More

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