Dr. Joel Brown, Professor of Piano at Iowa Wesleyan College where in addition to teaching both private and class piano he also teaches the junior music major course History of Western Music.

He is the accompanist for the Mt. Pleasant Chorale and has toured in Europe and to the west coast with the Iowa Wesleyan College Choir.

In addition to frequent solo recitals, Dr. Brown and Heidi Riepe regularly perform recitals of piano duet and piano duo literature.  He has been a solo performer with orchestras in Ohio, Georgia and Iowa.  Since its inception, Dr. Brown has been a faculty member for the adult piano camp, The Well-Campered Clavier, in Burlington.  Dr. Brown has been organist at the First Presbyterian Church in Mt. Pleasant, the Swedesburg Lutheran Church and is currently organist at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church. 

Professor Brown is known in southeast Iowa as a piano teacher and performer of exceptional ability.  One of his adult students recently observed, “He hears more music in music than most people do and has a way of drawing that beautiful music from the instrument.”  Robert McConnell, conductor of the Southeast Iowa Symphony and himself a performer said, "Joel Brown is a true artist.  He possesses a sensitivity of expression that few soloists ever achieve in their performances."

Joel Brown, Piano

Chamber Music Society Fairfield appearances:

10-08-2009 French Songs & Arias with Margaret Clair,

Mezzo-Soprano