Role(s):
Specialties:
Affiliations:
Dr. Michael Brown (Atlanta, GA) has spent the past five years serving executive leadership in the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education superintendent’s cabinet–directly supporting both Assistant Superintendents and their Executive Assistants in the Office of Information Technology Services and the Office of Student Support Services. He also teaches six online graduate education courses each year as a member of the Graduate Teaching Faculty at Columbus State University, Valdosta State University, and Georgia Southern University.
Brown is an active adjudicator with Drum Corps International, Bands of America, and the Western Band Association. He has been invited to judge state championships for the South Carolina Band Directors Association, Oklahoma Bandmasters Association, Wisconsin Bandmasters’ Association, and Michigan Competing Band Association–as well as the inaugural Latin American Indoor Marching Arts Championship in San José, Costa Rica.
Earlier in his career, Brown served as a Director of Bands and Assistant Principal in Alabama, Georgia, and California. A former soloist with The Marching Southerners and principal trombonist for Chamber Winds and the Hardcorps Pep Band, he studied music education and conducting at Jacksonville State University under Dr. Kenneth G. Bodiford and Dr. Jeremy L. Stovall. His summers in the 2000s with The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps–under Bruno Zuccala, David Bertman, Donnie Hull, and Scott Atchison–remain the most formative influences on his musical and teaching philosophy.
His ensembles were frequent BOA regional finalists and earned three consecutive WGI gold medals–achievements he credits to the students and communities who made them possible. Beyond music, Brown has also been selected to officiate basketball state championships in California, Hawaiʻi, and Georgia. He and his family live in Atlanta, where their favorite part of the week is worshiping at Passion City Church (Trilith).