Oren Brown (April 13, 1909 – March 6, 2004) was a well-known and highly successful American vocal pedagogue and voice teacher. La Scena Musicale website, The Vocal Legacy of Owen Brown, article by Claudel Callender dated November 2, 2004
Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, Brown attended Boston University, where he earned a Bachelor of Music with an emphasis in vocal performance and a master's degree in music composition. Vocal Pedagogy website, Historical section In 1932 he began his long career as a voice teacher which would last up until his death 72 years later. He notably served as a faculty member of the Mannes College of Music during the late 1940s and was on the voice faculty at the Juilliard School from 1972 through 1991. His students include John Aler, Bach Cantatas website, Aler, John Cecilia, Eva Johansson, James King, and Bo Skovhus, among others.
In 1952 Brown joined the staff of the Washington University School of Medicine, serving as a lecturer in voice therapy and otolaryngology JStor website, When Oren Brown and Richard Westernberg Speak.... I Listen!, article by Brown Bradley published in The Choral Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 (December 1984), page 17 up through 1968. While there he collaborated with medical personnel to develop an interdisciplinary approaches to voice training, making him one of the first vocal pedagogues, along with William Vennard and Ralph Appelman, to introduce contemporary scientific research in the areas of human anatomy and physiology into the study of singing. In addition to contributing articles to a number of music journals, he also is the author of Discover Your Voice: How to Develop Healthy Voice Habits (1996), GoodReads website, Discover Your Voice which is a well-known and highly respected vocal training text.
Brown died in Northampton, Massachusetts at the age of 94. Journal of Voice website, In Memoriam: Oren Lathrop Brown, article by Robert Thayer Sataloff
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