Michael Stephen Brown (born 1987 in Oceanside, NY) is an American classical pianist and composer. He is the recipient of the 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center, and the 2010

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Competition. Brown has performed as soloist with the

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, Grand Rapids, North Carolina, Maryland and Albany symphony orchestras, and at

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, Caramoor, the Smithsonian,

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, and the Gilmore Festival. He is an artist at the

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, and is a former member of CMS Two (now known as The Bowers Program). He regularly performs duo recitals with cellist

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. Michael Stephen Brown is also a composer and is the recipient of the 2018 Copland House Residency Award. Michael Stephen Brown is a graduate of the

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, where he studied piano with

Jerome Lowenthal Jerome Lowenthal (born February 11, 1932) is an American classical pianist. He has served as chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York. Additionally, Lowenthal is on the faculty at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbar ...

and Robert McDonald, and composition with

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and

Robert Beaser Robert Beaser (born May 29, 1954, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer. Biography Beaser was brought up in a non-musical family. His father was a physician and mother was a chemist. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, where he dist ...

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