Marion Vree


Marion Frances Wyma Vree-Brown was an American composer/arranger and music educator.
Vree was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Peter and Mina Wyma. She studied music at the University of Southern California, receiving her BM in 1947, MM in 1953, and DMA 1975. The title of her dissertation was The Development of Netherlands Psalmody from 1565-1773 through the Study of the Bourgeois Tune for Psalm 42. She married Henry Vree and they had a son, Dale, before Vree's death in 1976. 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.
Vree taught music and directed choral groups in Los Angeles at Alexander Hamilton High School and at Pierce College. She participated in the 1987 Congress on Women in Music, during which she hosted a house concert with composer Deborah Kavasch.
Vree composed and arranged music which was published by Alfred Music, Carl Fischer Music, Harold Flammer Inc., Theodore Presser Company, Shawnee Press, and Walton Music.

Works

Her compositions for choir, include: