Dr. Art Brownlow
Professor and Senior Fellow for Academic Innovation
School of Music
Email:
art.brownlow@utrgv.edu
Art Brownlow is Professor of Music at UTRGV Brownsville, where he teaches trumpet and music history, directs the UTRGV Brownsville Trumpet Ensemble, and is known as an innovator in the use of technology in music education. He is a recipient of the 2014-15 Instructional Technology Initiative Award from the College Music Society, and he has also been named an Apple Distinguished Educator, Class of 2015.
Dr. Brownlow currently performs as co-principal trumpet of the Valley Symphony Orchestra, and also with the UTRGV Brownsville Faculty Brass Quintet. In addition, he has performed with the South Texas Festival Orchestra, Border Brass Quintet, Brownsville Messiah Orchestra, Valley Sinfonette and South Texas Chamber Orchestra. Outside of the Valley, he has performed with the Corpus Christi Symphony, University of North Carolina Faculty Brass Quintet, Foothills Brass Quintet (Greenville, SC), Greenville Symphony, Greenville Brass Quintet, Wheaton (IL) Summer Symphony, North Carolina Symphony (Raleigh), North Carolina Bach Festival (Raleigh), Winston-Salem (NC) Symphony, Augusta (GA) Symphony, and Lake Forest (IL) Symphony. He has also played with the Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus Band, the Red Skelton Show Band, and at the Carowinds Amusement Park in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Brownlow performed as soloist in the inaugural concert of the 1996 Festival Internacional de Otoño in Matamoros, Mexico. He also performed as a member of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston (SC) and at the Festival dei Due Monde in Spoleto, Italy.
Teaching Music History with iPad is Dr. Brownlow’s latest book, and is available on the iBooks Store. He also wrote The Last Trumpet: A History of the English Slide Trumpet, which was published by Pendragon Press of Hillsdale, NY. He has presented papers at the College Music Society, National Opera Association, International Historic Brass Symposium, Texas Music Educators Association convention, and has published articles in The Opera Journal and The Instrumentalist.
In addition to a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Brownlow received an M.M. from Northwestern University, also in trumpet performance, and a B.M. in Music Education from Furman University. Further studies in musicology were undertaken at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His trumpet teachers include Vincent Cichowicz (Chicago Symphony), Raymond Cruiser (NBC Symphony and New York studios), Larry Black (Atlanta Symphony), Larry Cook (Greenville Symphony) and Helmut Wobisch, (Vienna Philharmonic). He has also studied musicology with Howard Smither and James Haar.
Dr. Brownlow is the director of the university’s Study Abroad Program in Vienna, Austria. This is a music-oriented program for music majors, minors and other university students interested in music. The next Study Abroad in Vienna program will be offered during the May session of 2016.
