Keith Gates: Music

Paul Brown was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied music at the North Carolina School of the Arts and The Juilliard School of Music. He also holds a degree in Environmental Biology from Syracuse University. His teachers include Gerard Schwarz, Per Brevig, Helen Kotus Hirsch, Frederick Bergstone, and Ranier DeIntinis. He has performed with the National Ballet of Canada, the Eric Hawkins Ballet, the North Carolina Symphony, the Charlotte Symphony, the Greensboro Symphony, the Winston-Salem Symphony, the National Orchestra Association, the Civic Symphony of Chicago, the Piedmont Chamber Orchestra, and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy. He is currently a member of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.