...immaculate Mozart with the
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester-Berlin.
Mozart Symphony 38, Prager
Stefan Amzoll, Neues Deutschland
...immaculate Mozart with the
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester-Berlin.
Mozart Symphony 38, Prager
Stefan Amzoll, Neues Deutschland
...immaculate Mozart with the
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester-Berlin.
Mozart Symphony 38, Prager
Stefan Amzoll, Neues Deutschland
...immaculate Mozart with the
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester-Berlin.
Mozart Symphony 38, Prager
Stefan Amzoll, Neues Deutschland
Afro-American conductor, Brandon Keith Brown, is a highly skilled socially conscious artist. A laureate of the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition, he beat over 402 candidates as the “standout audience favorite,” with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
For his European debut with the Badische Staatskapelle, he mastered an "extremely demanding program with flying colors.” (Klassik.com). A debut with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra ensued with a prompt re-invitation. Other orchestras include Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, the Tokyo Philharmonic at the Tokyo International Competition, the Cape Town Philharmonic, the Jena Philharmonic, and the Colour of Music Festival Orchestra for Black musicians.
As a skilled opera conductor, he’s led members of the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival as the Ansbacher Fellow. Works include The Merry Wives of Windsor, Mozart's Cosìfan tutte, Puccini's Suor Angelica, Britten's Albert Herring, and he studied Puccini's Il Trittico with Lorin Maazel.
A composer-violinist by nine, high school was at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, completing studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Renowned violin teachers, Roland and Almita Vamos, gave him a musical lineage dating through Ysaÿe and Wieniawski, to Arcangelo Corelli.
Brown fights to change the racial conscience of society through classical music. His writings on race and classical music have been featured internationally including NPR's Here and Now, DIE ZEIT, The Medium, Deutschlandfunk/Kultur, BR Klassik, and the Berlin Tagesspiegel. Lectures include Humboldt University and the Berlin University of Art and Music. He is a frequent podcast guest, speaker, and consultant on the intersection of race and music. Contact here for speaking engagements.
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Music is a healing balm that works regardless of race, color, ethnicity, religion or socioeconomic status.
...this was the best interpretation of a Bruckner symphony since the time when Andrey Boreyko was the chief conductor of the orchestra(Jenaer Philharmonie). It was quite astonishing how flexible and secure all the musicians of the orchestra performed all led by Brandon Keith Brown.
Dietmar Ebert - Jenaer Philharmonie, Bruckner Symphony No. 6
Jena Kultur
Under the youthfully fresh and agile direction of Brandon Keith Brown the orchestra positively blossomed, above all in Ludwig van Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony. Brown, at the helm of the Philharmonie for the first time, is hailed as a rising star in the conducting firmament.
Elisabeth Höving
For quite some time the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen (NPW) has not sounded as liberated as this, played with such refreshing exuberance in a symphonic concert as it did under the baton of the young US guest conductor Brandon Keith Brown. [...] the titanic Beethoven [Symphony No. 8], brought down by Brown from his pedestal to eye level, to rapturous applause.
Bernd Aulich
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