MICHAEL BROWN
PIANO GUEST ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Winner of an Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown performs recitals and concertos worldwide and receives commissions from leading orchestras, performers and chamber music festivals. Recent highlights include a solo recital at Alice Tully Hall for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, concerts with his longtime duo partner, cellist Nicholas Canellakis, collaborations with Pinchas Zukerman, and an Asia recital tour with violinist Arnaud Sussmann. As a composer, Brown was recently in residence at the Yaddo artist colony and performed his Piano Concerto with orchestras across the US and Poland. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra commissioned and premiered his new orchestration of Brahms' Handel Variations in Carnegie Hall. Connection, an album of original works featuring a large cast of performers, including the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Osmo Vänska and Erin Keefe, Jerome Lowenthal and Ursula Oppens, and Susanna Phillips, along with Mendelssohn+, are set for release in 2025. His recently premiered symphonic work American Diaries draws inspiration from words by Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, his own grandfather’s World War II diary. He earned dual degrees in piano and composition from the Juilliard School, where he studied with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald and composer Samuel Adler. Additional mentors have included András Schiff and Richard Goode. Brown is an Artist Ambassador for Creatives Care, an organization helping artists access affordable mental healthcare. An alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, Brown resides in New York City with his two 19th-century Steinway D pianos, Octavia and Daria. He will not reveal which is his favorite, so as not to incite jealousy. For more information, visit michaelbrownmusic.com.