Michael Stephen Brown

Brown is the recipient of the 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant,^[1] 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center,^[2] and the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Competition.^[3] Brown has performed as soloist with the Seattle,^[4] Grand Rapids, North Carolina, Maryland and Albany symphony orchestras,^[5] and at Carnegie Hall, Caramoor, the Smithsonian,^[6] Alice Tully Hall,^[3] and the Gilmore Festival. He is an artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and is a former member of CMS Two (now known as The Bowers Program).^[7] He regularly performs duo recitals with cellist Nicholas Canellakis.^[8][9][10] He has received commissions from many organizations and some of today’s leading artists, and recently toured his own Piano Concerto around the US and Poland with several orchestras.

Brown is also a composer^[6][11][12] and is the recipient of the 2018 Copland House Residency Award.^[13] He is a recipient of a 2025 MacDowell fellowship in music composition.^[14]

Brown is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied piano with Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald, and composition with Samuel Adler (composer).^[15]