Michael Stephen Brown is a composer and pianist hailed by the New York Times as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers.”
A 2025 MacDowell Fellow, 2024 Yaddo Artist and winner of Lincoln Center’s Emerging Artist Award and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Brown performs internationally and receives commissions from orchestras, soloists and festivals around the world.
Recent highlights include a recital at Alice Tully Hall for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, collaborations with cellist Nicholas Canellakis, and Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth. Currently he is composing The Magical Carnival, a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center-led project co-presented by a consortium of U.S. presenters.
His first album devoted entirely to his music, “Twelve Blocks,” will be released in fall 2025. He is the composer for Angeline Gragasin’s upcoming film "Look But Don’t Touch."
He lives in New York City with his two 19th-century Steinways, Octavia and Daria.
August 2025
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