Business Courier: Choral conductor, a CCM graduate, is ‘a man who dared to dream'

Brown's Atlanta high school chorus teacher, Rushia Johnson Stephens, died on March 19 of COVID-19.

“I lost the person who was a mentor of mine due to the pandemic. She discovered my voice; she discovered a talent in me that I never knew I had,” he said. “It gives me the motivation to program some beautiful music that I think will touch people.”

Brown, who just earned his diploma for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting at UC's College-Conservatory of Music, hopes to plan a concert with powerful settings of Psalms that will inspire and encourage audiences. Brown is the director of choral activities at Central State University Wilberforce, Ohio.

“People are going to be coming to concerts, and they’re going to need some encouragement, something that will inspire them, lift their heads up,” he said. “I pray through my programming that there’s something that will give somebody hope.”

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