Keith Brion, as a POPS CONDUCTOR, often appears in a wide variety of themed programs, including Patriotic Pops, Holiday, Broadway and Hollywood concerts.  All of these programs draw upon the same models of audience involvement, variety programming, superb soloists, great arrangements and strong musicianship that have made his Sousa programs such a continuing success.

        Mr. Brion now appears with numerous orchestras as a pops conductor In "Patriotic Pops", A "Fiedler Tribute", "An Old Fashioned Christmas" a Halloween concert-" A Little Fright Music" a Valentine's Pops, a Leroy Anderson evening, and  "Viva Italia".

     Keith Brion has led most of America's major and regional orchestras and in countless repeat performances.  He is a past pops conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony.  His active orchestral recording career has included as three recordings of the music of Victor Herbert and one of Percy Grainger's, plus three of Sousa’s orchestral music. He has also recorded the wind music of Sousa, Percy Grainger and Alan Hovhaness for Delos.  He is currently undertaking the recording of Sousa's "Complete Wind Works" for Naxos, a sixteen CD series with London's Royal Artillery Band. He tours nationally with his own New Sousa Band.     
     In May of 1986, he led a PBS-TV special, "The New Sousa Band on Stage at Wolf Trap."   He also appeared in the PBS-TV special "If You Knew Sousa" on the American Experience series and for the BBC Open University.     In addition to a number of performances with Canadian orchestras, Keith Brion has appeared overseas with the Gothenburg Symphony and Stockholm Symphonic Wind Orchestra and Royal Swedish Navy Band in Sweden, the Concert Orchestra of London, and a concert and national television show with the New Zealand Symphony.    

     Mr. Brion is a former director of the Yale University Band, which he led at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.  At Yale, in the spring of 1978, he conceived a re-creation of the historical sounds and sights of John Philip Sousa and his band.  The concerts met with instant popular and critical acclaim, and were later taped for public television and National Public Radio.

     Mr. Brion maintains his studio and offices in New Haven CT.  He may be contacted at WillowBlos@aol.com.  Further information, a discography and reviews are available from his web site: newsousaband.com.

9/2004