Michael Stephen Brown (born 1987 in Oceanside, NY) is an American classical pianist and composer. He is the recipient of the 2015

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, 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

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is an American organization dedicated to the performance and promotion of chamber music in New York City and around the world. It is the largest organization of its kind in the country for chamber m ...

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

Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...

, 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 Montecito, Ca ...

and Robert McDonald, and composition with

Samuel Adler (composer) Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is a German-American composer, conductor, author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochest ...

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1987 births American classical composers American classical pianists American male classical composers American male classical pianists Classical musicians from New York (state) Juilliard School alumni Living people People from Oceanside, New York {{Classical-pianist-stub