Personnel Bio

MUCS Brooke McEwan
Senior Chief Musician Brooke McEwan, bassoon, joined the U.S. Coast Guard Band in October 2004. She teaches bassoon at the University of Connecticut and is a member of the Rhode Island Philharmonic. She is an alumna of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. She holds degrees in music from Rice University and Louisiana State University, where she was a concerto competition winner. MUCS McEwan has also studied at the Brevard Music Center, Music Academy of the West, and was a two-time Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. MUCS was a student of Benjamin Kamins at Rice University, where she received her MM in bassoon performance,  and she received her Bachelor of Music summa cum laude from Louisiana State University, where she was a concerto competition winner. She also studied at the Brevard Music Center and Music Academy of the West, and she was a two-time Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. She has performed under the batons of orchestral masters such as Kurt Masur, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Slatkin, and John Williams, as well as American wind ensemble greats Frank Battisti, Donald Hunsberger, H. Robert Williams, and Frederick Fennell.  Her solo features with the Band have included Dana Wilson’s Avatar, Jenni Brandon’s Double Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon with Wind Symphony, Stephen Gryc’s Guignol, and Captain Kenneth Megan’s transcription for wind ensemble of Edward Elgar’s Romance, Op. 62.