Tuba artist Velvet Brown enjoys a musical career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, masterclass clinician, conductor, and professor of tuba and euphonium at Penn State University. She has made appearances throughout Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, England, Canada, Japan and the United States. Highlighted featured performances include the 2000 HETA Conference in Sapporo (Japan), and solo performances at several editions of the Mid-Europe Conference in Austria. She is also a frequent featured soloist at International Tuba and Euphonium Conferences, International Women's Brass Conferences, and other professional meetings. Ms. Brown is noted for receiving the 1999-2000 William Fulbright -Vinciguerra Fellowship Award (Italy).

An advocate for outstanding new music for tuba, she has premiered many new works by prominent international composers. Velvet Brown has performed as an international soloist with orchestras and symphonic wind ensembles such as the Dohnanyi Orchestra Budafok in Budapest, Hungary; the Vaasa Symphonic Orchestra in Lahti, Finland; the Regina Symphony in Canada, and the World Youth Wind Ensemble in Schladming, Austria. Former tubist of the prize-winning Boston Brass, she is a founding and current member of the Monarch Brass. She has recorded two solo CDs on the Crystal Records label.