Rulon Brown is a composer, improviser and producer who makes music for stage, film, video games and other creative space.
Rulon’s latest work blends Christian melody with world rhythm and improv. It inspired Ross Hauck (founder of the Sacred Music Foundation) to declare: “[Rulon] defies description or category. I’m going to call him an ambassador of Christativity… Christianity and creativity together.” Rulon began the sacred music project after an inspiring unrehearsed recording session with Jeff Busch (drums / percussion), Dawn Clement (piano) and Paul Rucker (bass / cello).
Rulon leads an eclectic career and is currently traveling Central America with his mobile recording studio, composing, performing and gathering field audio.
He toured the United States for three years teaching and performing with a Celtic-jazz trio, worked closely with Brazilian master pianist Jovino Santos Neto (who produced and played on Rulon’s first album), was guest soloist with the renewed Total Experience Gospel Choir, and he has played a variety of Latin music from Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and more. His commercial audio credits include work for TV, radio, web, digital gaming and phone systems.
Rulon is passionate about using culture to build community. His past work includes creating visual and performing arts programs for the City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, volunteering for the Gage Academy of Fine Art Drawing Jam, a Washington Composers Forum Composer Spotlight, and co-creating Tales & Treasures – an interfaith celebration of Christmas featuring life-sized pop-up-book theatre performances and concerts by many of the Northwest’s best choirs and instrumentalists.
Rulon Brown grew up in the boondocks of Anchorage, Alaska playing saxophone in coffee shops and pit orchestra for caffeinated audiences with cabin fever. He traded snow for rain by moving to Seattle to attend Cornish College of the Arts as a full-ride Kreielsheimer scholar. At Cornish, Rulon studied jazz saxophone, composition and classical flute. He also admits to “spending countless distracted hours learning to play piano like a lounge hack.”
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