Keith Brion (born July 9, 1933)[1] is an American classical conductor and band leader.
[4] Brion studied music education at West Chester State University[5] and piccolo with John C. Krell, then taught in New Jersey schools while studying for a Master's Degree in Music Education at Rutgers University.
Brion has published many editions of band music, by composers such as Charles Ives, Percy Grainger, John Philip Sousa and others.
Additionally, Brion has recorded the music of Alan Hovhaness, including one LP (1971) on the Mace label, one CD (1994) for Delos and three CDs (2005, 2010, 2018) for Naxos, the latter comprising a three-disc survey comprising most of Hovhaness's music for band and chamber works featuring wind instruments.
[7] They subsequently had three children, Randall (conductor/arranger), Laurie (violinist), and Jon Brion (multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer).