Dr. Kimberly Brown

Adjunct Faculty- Voice
kmbrown@jsu.edu

Kimberly Brown, soprano, teaches Applied Voice and various other voice-related courses at JSU. For over ten years, Dr. Brown was on faculty at Wayland Baptist University (Plainview, TX), where she also served as Director of Vocal Studies. She earned a DMA in Music, with a concentration in Vocal Performance and a secondary concentration in Musicology, from the University of Memphis, a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Alabama, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Jacksonville State University. 

At home on the recital and concert stage, Dr. Brown has a particular affinity for collaborative vocal chamber works, having performed many complete, multi-movement chamber pieces such as To Be Sung Upon the Water (Argento), the world premiere of Rosetti Songs (Belshaw), Liebeslieder-Walzer (Brahms), I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Laitman), Sechs Deutsche Lieder (Spohr), and Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 (Villa-Lobos). She has appeared as soprano soloist in large concert works such as Wachet Auf (Bach), Requiem (Fauré), Messiah (Handel), Te Deum (Hayes), Missa in Angustiis (Haydn), Elijah (Mendelssohn), and Vesperae Solennes di Confessore (Mozart). On the opera stage, she performed roles including Contessa Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Mimí (La Bohème), and Michaëla (The Tragedy of Carmen).

Dr. Brown’s research and publications have largely centered on the effects of the female hormonal cycle on the singing voice. She is happy to be back in Jacksonville and teaching at her alma mater.