with Gilles Vonsattel, Chad Hoopes, Matthew Lipman, Paul Neubauer, Nicholas Canellakis, and Joseph Conyers

Date and Time: Monday, October 12-Friday, October 16
Tickets: Free Video Stream

“one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers.” --- New York Times

Program:

Barber
Souvenirs for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 28
Michael Brown, Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Brown
Prelude and Dance for Cello and Piano
Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Michael Brown, piano

Mendelssohn
Sextet in D major for Piano, Violin, Two Violas, Cello, and Bass, Op. 110
Michael Brown, piano; Chad Hoopes, violin; Paul Neubauer, Matthew Lipman, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Joseph Conyers, double bass

Michael Brown has been described as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers” (New York Times). Winner of a 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center and a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and an alum of The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two). He makes regular appearances with orchestras such as the National Philharmonic, the Seattle, Grand Rapids, North Carolina, and Albany symphonies, and was selected by pianist András Schiff to perform an international solo recital tour, making debuts in Zurich’s Tonhalle and New York’s 92nd Street Y. He has appeared at the Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, Marlboro, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Tippet Rise, Bridgehampton, and Bard music festivals and performs regularly with his longtime duo partner, cellist Nicholas Canellakis. A prolific composer, Mr. Brown’s Piano Concerto will be premiered in 2020 at the Gilmore Festival and by the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra in Poland. He was the composer and artist-in-residence at the New Haven Symphony for the 2017-19 seasons and a 2018 Copland House Award winner. He is the First Prize winner of the Concert Artists Guild competition, and earned degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where he studied with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald and composers Samuel Adler and Robert Beaser. A native New Yorker, he lives there with his two 19th-century Steinway D’s, Octavia and Daria.

This program will be available here for viewing beginning Monday, October 12

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