Marcellus Brown

About Marcellus

Marcellus Brown is Director of Bands Emeritus at Boise State University. Under his leadership, the university band program has become one of the outstanding wind band programs in the northwest.

During Professor Brown’s tenure, the Boise State University Symphonic Winds was invited to perform at a College Band Directors National Association National Conference and at the 81st American Bandmasters Association Annual Conference. Professor Brown has done extensive work as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the United States as well as in Canada and Australia.

Upon his retirement (May 2023) as Director of Bands at Boise State University, Professor Brown accepted a one-year position as a Visiting Professor in Wind Band Conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. In January 2025, Professor Brown accepted a one-term position as the director of the Interlochen Arts Academy Wind Symphony. Since the fall of 1992, he has been and continues to be the Director of the Treasure Valley Concert Band. In 2007, he accepted the position of conductor for the Treasure Valley’s Hymns of Thanksgiving Orchestra.

Professor Brown established the Boise State University Summer Chamber Music Camp, which encourages and promotes the performance of chamber music for secondary school students and champions’ great composers from our past and contemporary composers (jazz, pop, Broadway, and motion pictures) from the 20th and 21st centuries.

During his tenue at Boise State University, he has been recognized for his work and dedication as an educator where he has been the recipient of the Excellence In Teaching Award and the Faculty/Staff Larry G. Selland Humanitarian Award. In 2005 Professor Brown was elected into the American Bandmaster Association, and in December 2022, Professor Brown was honored to be the recipient of the National Band Association’s Al and Gladys Wright Distinguished Legacy Award. In 2023 he was inducted into the All-Northwest Band Director’s Association Hall of Fame. This past December (2024), at the Midwest International Band & Orchestra Clinic, he was awarded the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service Medal in Instrumental Music Education. The Distinguished Service to Music Medal is Kappa Kappa Psi’s highest honor.