Brandon Keith Brown

Brandon Keith Brown recently attended the 2009 American Academy of Conducting at Aspen with David Zinman.  He performed four concerts with the academy orchestra, conducted The Aspen Opera Theater, and recorded new music.  For the 2008 season, he served as the Conducting Fellow with The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, working as assistant and cover conductor.  Additionally, he was the opera assistant at the UMKC Conservatory of Music, where he was music director for Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte and assistant for Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring.  Recently, he guest conducted the Yakima Chamber Orchestra at the Seasons Music Festival in Yakima Washington.  Previous positions include Music Director of the Wausau Youth Orchestra, and assistant conductor/adjunct faculty of violin/viola and chamber music at Beloit College.

Mr. Brown is a frequently invited participant at prestigious conducting workshops and schools, including the American Symphony Orchestra League, the Conductors Institute at Bard, the Pierre Monteux School, the Conductors Guild, The International Conductors Workshop and Festival and the International Conductors Workshop. As a participant, he has performed with the Macon Sinfonia, Pierre Monteux Summer Orchestra and recently with the Astoria Symphony, performing Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks with a professional ballet company. He has worked with many top conductors in the field, including Leonard Slatkin, James Depreist, Murray Sidlin, Leonid Korchmar, Oleg Proskurnya, Carl Topilow, Marin Alsop, and Gustav Meier.

Initially trained as a violinist, Mr. Brown graduated from high school at the North Carolina School of the Arts.  He continued at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Northwestern, receiving a Bachelor’s in Performance under Roland and Almita Vamos.  Mr. Brown is currently a graduate assistant conductor at the Peabody Institute under the leadership of Gustav Meier and a cover conductor for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

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