Lora Brown
Lora Brown is an experienced teacher on violin, viola, cello, voice and piano. She played both violin and viola professionally for more than a decade before dedicating herself to teaching. She has performed with the Tampa Bay Pops, Florida Orchestra, Oak Ridge Symphony, and continues to perform with various chamber ensembles and community groups. She started her own performance company in Florida over 15 years ago.
In 1999, she relocated the company to this area and renamed the group Amadeus Entertainment. Amadeus Entertainment incorporated in 2004 when Miss Brown made education the company's primary focus.
Her goals for the company are still performance and educationally oriented. Following after the models of her own mentors, she strives to educate students and raise the level of arts awareness in the community.
Lora studied with the Hungarian violinist Andrew Galos before moving to Tennessee to study with Peter Horodisky and Mark Zelmonovich at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she received a Bachelor's Degree in Music with a concentration in choral and instrumental music education. She completed Master's work in Music Education from Belmont University.
Miss Brown has also received extensive training in conducting, chamber music, and musical theater. She is a member of the Conductor's Guild, Suzuki Association of America, the American String Teacher's Association with the National Symphony Orchestra Association, Music Educators National Conference, and the Music Teachers National Association. As the President of Amadeus Entertainment, Inc. she has made it a priority to give back to the community through benefit concerts, scholarships, and community theater opportunities.
Harold Fann
Harold Fann (B.A., Russian; University of Minnesota) is a graphic designer, writer (co-author, "The Present", "Step by Step Websites"), guitar player, and actor, who enjoys playing and teaching guitar in a variety of styles including Folk, Rock, and Country; and yes, Russian songs are also part of his repertoire.
His teaching method encourages learning basic chords and songs while learning how to read music, and play leads ranging from contemporary to classical. But the greatest endorsement of his teaching method, he feels, are his students.
Harold began his professional music/acting career while still in high school at 16, signing on for summer stock in the town of Victor, Colorado to perform honky-tonk banjo tunes and folk guitar classics in "The Affairs of Baby Doe Tabor." Soon, Harold was performing in country clubs and restaurants in the Castle Rock and Perry Park areas, with a repertoire which was rapidly expanding into classical and rock. As lead singer of the band, Love of the Common People, Harold performed at battles of the bands, school and church dances. As a solo act, he added his talents to greater Denver's musical theater as El Gallo in The Fantastiks, Cervantes in Man of La Mancha, and Perchik in Fiddler on The Roof.
In Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, Harold performed as a street musician in Dinkytown - granted, this was about 10 years after young Bob Zimmerman (Dylan) was doing the same thing. Still a rewarding experience, all in all. He also performed at local Holiday Inns and coffee houses around the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, at the same time performing in plays at the University of Minnesota, including a much vaunted role as Menelaus in Euripedes' Trojan Women.
Returning to Colorado, Harold performed guitar and vocals in Greeley, Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, Monte Vista, Colorado Springs, Palmer Lake, and Castle Rock, in restaurants, lounges, coffee houses, weddings and private parties. At the same time, he worked at KUNC (a public radio affiliate) as a radio announcer, and host of his own Saturday Folk show.
One of his favorite stories is about performing at the Boulderado Hotel in Boulder, CO one evening with his brother, Gordon. A very boisterous but polite, beardless man was really enjoying the music, and had plenty of song requests for the duo, favoring Beatles music especially. Although he looked familiar, Harold and Gordon didn't really put much credence in what the hotel staff was saying—that his name was Dan Fogelberg. (At the time, the brothers had never seen a picture of Fogelberg without a beard.) About a month later, when Fogelberg's new album was released, the brothers realized the Boulderado staff had not been pulling their legs. And to think, they could have turned the tables and requested songs from him!
After moving to Nashville, Harold performed in a number of locations, including Mulligan's on 2nd Avenue, and the Chatterbox Coffee Shop, formerly on Main Street in Dickson. Now that he's with Amadeus Entertainment, he's also been performing in featured evenings at Amadeus—a "Folk Night" and a "Beatles Night" being two of his recent gigs.
In acting, you may have seen him locally as a chorus member in Children of Eden, as Dr. Seward in Dracula, Lt. Brannigan in Guys and Dolls, Felix in The Odd Couple, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, or Heck Tate in To Kill A Mockingbird.
He's written several plays—most recently, The Present, which was co-authored with Jeremy Rinker and first produced at Amadeus Community Theater, June 2007.
Harold is also the author of a series of successful books for people building their own websites—Step by Step Websites in 3-6 Hours with Dreamweaver. These books have been good sellers since the first book was launched for Dreamweaver MX in 2003. The latest book in the series, for Dreamweaver CS3, is in final production stages. Beginning Fall 2007, Mr. Fann will be offering classes for those wanting to build their own sites using Dreamweaver. Limited availability! To keep the instruction as close to one-on-one as possible, enrollment for these classes will be limited to 10 people.
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