Steve Brown
Piano and Vocals

 

Biography

  • Graduate of Bowling Green State University with a Bachelors in Music Education, 1974
  • While at BGSU, performed with a number of bands including Montage, Sunday Morning, and Steve Brown Trio; as well as numerous solo piano engagements
  • Arranged music for the BGSU marching band
  • 1974, formed the band Summer Breeze, which toured during the summers throughout Ohio and the southern states
  • Performed with Good Company for 15 years, playing hundreds of wedding receptions and other private functions around north central Ohio
  • Former utility clarinetist with the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra and other chamber ensembles
  • Formerly the music director for the Mansfield Playhouse
  • Former member of the Miss Ohio Scholarship Pageant orchestra, and former musical arranger
  • Freelance musician on keyboard, clarinet, and saxophone; has performed with such artists as Sarah Vaughn, Cab Calloway, Rosemary Clooney, Helen O’Connell, Kaye Ballard, Bobby Vinton, Fifth Dimension, and Sonny Geraci
  • Substitute clarinetist with the Ribticklers, a popular Dixieland band
  • Has played with several rock bands including The Fortune Brothers, Flashback,, H.R. Garn Band
  • Has played in numerous other bands from jazz to country-western
  • Plays with Good Vibes, a 5-piece band specializing in jazz, blues, and light rock and The Islanders Band, a 3-piece rock and blues band
  • Plays with the AFM 159 Big Jazz Band
  • Leader of the contemporary praise band for The Church of the Cross in Lexington, Ohio
  • Former public school music teacher and school administrator; currently at Ashland University as Director of Graduate Studies in Education
  • Has recently been more and more in demand as a solo performer on piano and vocals