Side-by-Side Concert
Keith Brion to Conduct SJAWE
April 19, 2010
The Richard Stockton College of NJ at 7:30 P.M.
Admission $10 (All Seats Reserved)
Click to Order Tickets at Stockton Box Office
KEITH BRION
Keith Brion is a free lance conductor of bands and orchestras and also currently leads his own New Sousa Band, an all-star professional band assembled from all over the United States. He has appeared as a guest conductor nationally and internationally with many professional bands as well as with near all of America’s major and regional symphony orchestras. Mr. Brion has guest conducted many university bands throughout the country in special residencies and has recorded the music of Alan Hovhaness with the Ohio State Band and the music of Percy Grainger with the Michigan State Band.
In the 1970's he conducted the Yale Band in New Haven, at Carnegie Hall, and took that band on numerous national and international tours including an all-Ives concert at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. In the 1990’s he served as interim band director at San Jose State. During the 80's and 90's he has led most of Americas orchestras as a pops conductor with an emphasis on the music of John Philip Sousa, Percy Grainger and Victor Herbert. These include the Boston Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony, etc. He has appeared numerous times with the Goldman Band in New York the Stockholm Symphonic Wind Orchestra, the Texas Wind Symphony, the Allentown Band and many other professional and military bands throughout the country, including the Army Field Band and West Point Bands.
Mr. Brion's career includes extensive public school teaching in New Jersey, where he also founded the North Jersey Wind Symphony. He is a former member of the New Jersey Symphony and taught at William Paterson and Montclair State Universities.
Keith Brion has published numerous editions of the music of Percy Grainger, Charles Ives, and DW Reeve as well as over thirty new editions of the music of John Philip Sousa. Mr. Brion records for Delos and Naxos records, and currently has over twenty commercial band and orchestral recordings including the music of Grainger, Hovhaness, Victor Herbert and Sousa. In the summer of 1999, he began a new series of 16 CD’s which will encompass the complete Sousa band music for the Naxos “American Classic Series” with London's Royal Artillery Band and the Royal Norwegian Naval Band. Ten have been completed to date. He has recently completed recording the seven wind symphonies of Alan Hovhaness for Naxos with the wind orchestras of the Royal Academy in Glasgow and Trinity College in London.

Keith W. Hodgson, Musical Director and Conductor
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Ron Poorman, Associate Conductor
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Brigantine North School Concert - 7P.M.
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Monday, August 16, 2010
STAC Concert - 7:30P.M.
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Mainland Regional High School at 7:30 P.M.
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Encore
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Surflight Theater in Beach Haven, NJ at 2:00 P.M.
Adults $20 Children $5
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