Marion Vree

Marion Frances Wyma Vree-Brown (18 July 1920 – 10 April 2012) was an American composer/arranger^[1] and music educator.^[2][3]

Vree was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Peter and Mina (Westrate) Wyma. She studied music at the University of Southern California, receiving her BM^[4] in 1947, MM in 1953, and DMA 1975.^[5] The title of her dissertation was The Development of Netherlands Psalmody from 1565-1773 through the Study of the Bourgeois Tune for Psalm 42.^[6] She married Henry Vree and they had a son, Dale, before Vree's death in 1976.^[7] She remarried Harry Wesley Brown Jr. in 1980 and changed her name to Vree-Brown, although her music was published under the name Marion Vree.^[8]

Vree taught music and directed choral groups in Los Angeles at Alexander Hamilton High School^[9] and at Pierce College.^[10] She participated in the 1987 Congress on Women in Music (now the International Alliance for Women in Music), during which she hosted a house concert with composer Deborah Kavasch.^[11]

Vree composed and arranged music which was published^[12] by Alfred Music,^[13] Carl Fischer Music,^[14] Harold Flammer Inc., Theodore Presser Company,^[15] Shawnee Press,^[16] and Walton Music^[17] (now GIA Publications).