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Brandon Keith Brown is quickly gaining national and international attention as an accomplished young conductor. As winner of the 2011 Ansbacher Fellowship, he was selected by members of the Vienna Philharmonic to be in residence at The Salzburg Festival, where he conducted members of the Vienna Philharmonic in the Musikcamps program.
Chosen by Lorin Maazel as his apprentice, Brown performed at The 2010 Castleton Festival in Virginia USA. In 2009, he performed in the acclaimed American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, with David Zinman. Solely representing the United States, he competed in Zagreb, Croatia as 1 of 16 semi-finalists in The Lovro Matacic International Competition for Young Conductors in October, having been chosen from 163 applicants from 43 countries. At the invitation of Kurt Masur, he recently made is New York debut at the Manhattan School of Music as part of a prestigious weeklong seminar concert.
Active as a guest conductor, he has conducted the Croatian National Radio and Television Orchestra, the Omaha Symphony, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, Macon Sinfonia, the Astoria Symphony, the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, the Yakima Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and various youth, collegiate, and all-state orchestras.
Versatile in opera, Brown has been music director for Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Suor Angelica, assistant for Britten's Albert Herring and studied Puccini's Il Trittico with Lorin Maazel. Previously, he has served as cover conductor for the Baltimore Symphony, Assistant Conductor at the Peabody Institute, and as an assistant conductor/fellow of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra.
Recognized as an international competitor, Brown will conduct the Danish National Symphony Orchestra competing in the highly prestigious Malko International Conducting Competition in Copenhagen, having been selected as 1 of 48 participants from over 390 applicants. Other prestigious workshops and schools he has attended include: The Pierre Monteux School, The Conductor's Institute, The League of American Orchestras, The Omaha Symphony Conductor's Symposium, the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen and the Conductor's Guild. Prominent conductors he has worked with include: James Depreist, Murray Sidlin, Leonid Korchmar, Oleg Proskurnya, Thomas Wilkins, Carl Topilow, Donald Thulean, Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier.
As a winner of the Peabody Career Grant, Mr. Brown holds a Master's of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, under Gustav Meier. Initially trained as a violinist, Mr. Brown is a high school graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He later continued his studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Northwestern University, where he received a Bachelor's in Performance under Roland and Almita Vamos. This is his first season as Associate Conductor of the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras, and he currently serves on the grant review panel for the Nebraska Arts Council.
Country
United States
Occupation
Conductor
