Corrick Brown first performed as piano soloist with the Santa Rosa Symphony at age 15 under its founding conductor, George Trombley. After studying conducting at the Vienna Academy under Hans Swarowsky, along with such luminaries as Zubin Mehta and Claudio Abbado, Corrick Brown was chosen to be the Santa Rosa Symphony's second Music Director in 1957.

After 38 years at the helm he chose a partial retirement and is now the Santa Rosa Symphony's Conductor Laureate. As Conductor Laureate, Brown performs one concert set each season. His distinguished career has included performances of most of the works of Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner and Igor Stravinsky culminating in a memorable performance of that composer's "Rite of Spring".

After graduating from Stanford University, Mr. Brown did graduate work at the University of California, studying with Manfred Bukhofzer, Roger Sessions and the Griller Quartet. After Vienna, he continued his studies at the Conductors' Workshop at Asilomar, directed by Dr. Richard Lert, the former conductor of the Berlin Opera.

Mr. Brown's guest conducting activity has included performances throughout California and abroad in Spain, Austria, Germany, Italy and Turkey. His performance of MacDowell, Ives, and the Brahms 2nd Symphony in Baden-Baden in 1991 brought the following from the German critics: "The orchestra, playing with commitment under the superior leadership of the American guest conductor, offered impressive sound perspectives." and..."Joy in music he not only conveyed to his musicians, but also to the audience who thanked him with sustained applause."-Bad Tagblatt

Following Germany, Mr. Brown traveled to Moscow and conducted a concert and broadcast of the Moscow Radio and Television Orchestra in the magnificent Hall of Columns. The program was a tribute (the first in Moscow for a living American Composer) to his friend, composer Kirke Mechem. A recording of this concert is available through the Symphony office. In 1997 he conducted closer to home: the annual Symphony concert at the Bohemian Grove encampment.