In March 2021, AgArts of Iowa non-profit sponsored her artist residency at White Rock Conservancy, where she created an inspired-by-nature project based on her prairie-dwelling experiences. She just shared her recordings and findings from this experience, and can be listened through the compositions page. This led her to continuing her interest in providing agriculture and arts collaboration by serving on the board of AgArts.

She graduated with a Master of Music degree from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, after winning an audition with the Navy Fleet Band. While under the tutelage of Rick Seraphinoff, she performed in various ensembles through the school, including the Baroque Orchestra, and Concert Orchestra, as well as Natural Horn ensembles. She was also featured as principal horn for the Latin concert by the local Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. Annie was a founding member of Quintessence: a woodwind quintet formed by students at Jacobs, dedicated to community outreach and learning. During her last semester at IU, she held an assistantship at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, where she worked as a house manager, marketing specialist, and box office associate.

Her primary teachers and mentors are Dr. Bruce Bonnell and Rick Seraphinoff. Annie has also had the privilege of playing in masterclasses and coachings for Michelle Stebleton, Eric Terwilliger, Dale Clevenger, Jeff Nelsen, Corbin Wagner, Andrew Pelletier, James Campbell, as well as the Cleveland Orchestra Horn Section. She is available to teach private lessons on brass instruments, beginning methods on ukulele, and voice, as well as perform in a variety of ensemble compositions.

When she isn’t teaching or performing, Annie is hiking with her husband Rick, trying new recipes, and playing with their cat Marjoram.

Annie Chapman Brewer is an award winning musician, educator, and entrepreneur based in Midland, MI. Her horn sound has been described as “delicious” and her “mastery of the horn [is] evident”. She has a home music studio where she teaches private lessons offered both in-person AND online for students. Check out her lesson page or contact page to get in touch with these offerings. Brewer is the adjunct horn instructor for undergraduate music majors at Saginaw Valley State University. In September 2023, Brewer’s River House on the Prairie won the Judith Lang Zaimont prize through The International Alliance of Women in Music search for new music. In Fall of 2022, Brewer was a guest Professor of Horn at Central Michigan University.  She freelances as a portrait and event photographer, capturing organic moments to be cherished in the days ahead. You can find her galleries and projects on her photography page.

Brewer performs all around Midwest, through Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, and arranges horn ensemble music, composes nature inspired pieces, teaches university natural horn/modern horn masterclasses, and is a clinician throughout the mitten state. Her most recent masterclass through the International Women’s Brass Conference Mentorship Program can be found: Looking into Music Entrepreneurship: Building a Private Music Studio Business. Some of these groups include Midland Symphony Orchestra, Noel Experience in Saginaw, Beaver Island Music Festival, Marquette Symphony Orchestra, Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Iowa, and Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra. She has been served as the interim Professor of Horn at Central Michigan University, and as been a guest lecturer at University of Iowa, Northern Iowa University, Saginaw Valley State University, and Iowa State University.

In 2022, she was featured in the premier of a Thousand Acres by the Des Moines Metropolitan Opera, hosted at Whiterock Conservancy, featuring other Midwest Artists that collaborate with agricultural issues. Her piece, “River House on the Prairie” was showcased at this event. Before her move back to Michigan, she was the third horn player for Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra where they have performed standard repertoire alongside premieres of local composers and performers including Kent Keating, and Linda Coleman Robbins. She was also the annual principal hornist in the pit orchestra for The Nutcracker at the Englert Theatre by Nolte Academy.