Jennifer Brown joined the faculty at Eastern Illinois University as the Assistant Professor of Trumpet in the fall of 2018. She enjoys an active career balancing her love of performing and teaching. Dr. Brown is the principal trumpet of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, and performs regularly with Sinfonia da Camera and the Heartland Festival Orchestra. She has performed with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Danville Symphony Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Owensboro Symphony Orchestra and The Prairie Ensemble. Before moving to central Illinois, she played soprano cornet with the Lexington Brass Band and was a member of the Victory Brass Quintet in Lexington, Kentucky.

Prior to her appointment at Eastern Illinois University, Dr. Brown was on faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University and at Olivet Nazarene University. Originally from St. Charles, Illinois, Dr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, a Master of Music from the University of Kentucky and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her former teachers include Michael Sachs, Ronald Romm, Robert Sullivan, James Darling, Charles Daval, Mark Clodfelter and Vincent DiMartino.