A dynamic and versatile artist, violist Sheila Browne has concertized in many of the world's major halls as soloist, chamber musician, and as principal of several orchestras, including the Juilliard, Mainz, Freiburg, German-French, and Madrid's Queen Sofia chamber orchestras, the Kiev Philharmonic, and the New World Symphony.  An American citizen with Irish citizenship, she has performed extensively at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and at the Kennedy Center, Schauspielhaus Berlin, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, London's Royal Festival Hall, Buenos Aires' Teatro Colon as well as the major halls of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Houston, St. Louis, Paris, Mexico, Australia, China, and Hong Kong.  Also an active recitalist, she has given solo concerts and outreach performances across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and South Africa.

The only viola solo finalist at Carnegie Hall in the 2004 Pro Musicis International Solo Awards, she also has been a member of the internationally prizewinning Arianna and Gotham String Quartets.  Ms. Browne collaborates with great artists such as James Buswell, Nicholas Chumachenko, Miriam Fried, Paul Katz, Gilbert Kalish, David Krakauer, Ruth Laredo, Ransom Wilson, Richard Stolzman, and the Vermeer Quartet, and has recorded for Nonesuch with Audra MacDonald, recording with other famous singers such as Natalie Cole and Lisa Loeb. She was featured by Michael Tilson-Thomas while principal of the New World Symphony in the PBS documentary "Beethoven Alive!" The Gotham Quartet was chosen for the cover of Chamber Music America magazine's issue titled "Quartets of the Future".

Ms. Browne has worked closely with many living composers, including Krystof Penderecki on his solo music at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, which was broadcast on CBC radio. She also has been heard on NPR and classical radio stations across South America and Europe and in Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Chicago, Houston, St. Louis, Seattle, North Carolina, California, Tennessee, Vermont, and Washington.  Ms. Browne has appeared in the Banff, Donaueschingen, Evian, Great Lakes, Green Mountain, Killington, Jeunesses Musicales, Music Academy of the West, Port Townsend, Sun Valley, Tanglewood, and Texas Music festivals.

A proponent of new music, she has premiered many contemporary composers' works, several of which have been recorded. These include Arthur Gottschalk's Politically Correct (written for soprano and the Gotham Quartet) and Anthony Iannoccone's Clarinet Quintet (for the Arianna Quartet, which also recently released a compact disc of the Brahms and Mozart Clarinet Quintets on the Urtext label). A Centaur CD of viola and cello duos featuring Browne receiving critical acclaim includes a duo written for her along with a previously unrecorded work by Witold Lutoslawski. Browne has premiered a concerto written for her in Australia's recent International Viola Congress and was also featured at the International Viola Congress in South Africa. This work has also been recorded with the Kiev Philharmonic on the ERM label.

A passionate and dedicated teacher, Ms. Browne was Karen Tuttle's teaching assistant and received a Naumburg scholarship at the Juilliard School for four years, and was awarded a German Academic Exchange Grant (DAAD) for studies with soloist Kim Kashkashian at the Freiburger MusikHochschule.  She also was Karen Ritscher's teaching assistant at Rice University's Shepherd School, where the Gotham Quartet was in Paul Katz's String Quartet Residency Program.  She was an Artist-Teacher-in-Residence at the University of Missouri / St. Louis with the Arianna Quartet and Professor of Viola at the University of Tennessee before joining the faculty of the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she currently teaches viola and chamber music. She teaches at California Summer Music, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and at the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq. She is the first viola professor ever to teach in Kurdistan.  Her most recent invitations to give master classes and / or recitals have been at Duke, Oberlin, Eastman, and McGill University. She also serves on the Executive Board of the American Viola Society.