Michael Stephen Brown (born 1987 in Oceanside, NY) is an American classical pianist and composer.
Biography Brown is the recipient of the 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center, and the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Brown has performed as soloist with the Seattle, Grand Rapids, North Carolina, Maryland and Albany symphony orchestras, and at Carnegie Hall, Caramoor, the Smithsonian, Alice Tully Hall, 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). 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.
Brown is also a composer and is the recipient of the 2018 Copland House Residency Award. He is a recipient of a 2025 MacDowell fellowship in music composition.
Brown is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied piano with Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald, and composition with Samuel Adler (composer).
Works +List of compositions by Michael Stephen BrownYearTitleInstrumentation2020Concerto for Piano and StringsPiano and Orchestra2021Merging PodsOrchestral2021American DiariesOrchestral2022VortexCello and String Orchestra2013Violin SonataViolin and Piano2016ReflectionsPiano Trio2017Prelude and Dance Cello and Piano2018Garden Quartet Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano2018Relationship Clarinet and piano2021Twelve-Blocks Piano Four-Hands, with Spoken Poetry2024The Lotos-Eaters Flute, Cello, Piano, Percussion2024Spinning Song Cello and Piano2024Sigh (after Mallarmé)Violin and Piano2015After Three Statues Mezzo Soprano and Piano2017Dearest Friend Soprano, Baritone, Piano2023Loves Lives Lost Soprano and Piano2025Pas de trois Soprano, Viola, Piano2012Suite for Solo CelloCello2013Chant Piano Four-Hands2016SurfacesPiano2020Etude Fantasy on the Name of HaydnPiano2024Four Lakes, Four ChildrenPiano2024Breakup Etude for the Right Hand AlonePiano
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