Dr. Kimberly Brown

Adjunct Faculty- Voice
kmbrown@jsu.edu

Kimberly Brown, soprano, teaches Applied Voice and Diction at JSU. For over ten years, Dr. Brown taught both courses, as well as varied other voice-related courses, for Wayland Baptist University (Plainview, TX), where she also served as Director of Vocal Studies.

Dr. Brown earned a DMA in Vocal Performance 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. She is excited to be back in Jacksonville and teaching at her alma mater.

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), 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 has an ongoing interest in vocal health topics, especially centering on the effects of the female hormone cycle on the singing voice. Her article, “Sex Hormones and the Female Voice: Communication in the Voice Studio,” was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Singing (March/April 2015). She was also a contributor to the book, Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History (ABCClio-Greenwood Press, 2018). Her interests also include reviving and adapting shape-note hymns from the traditional Sacred Harp for solo voice and various instrumentation. In 2017, she premiered her first such arrangement, Idumea (for soprano, piano, and marimba), at the Song Collaborator’s Consortia Art Song Festival.