Pianist

Dmitri Shostakovich struggled his entire life to maintain his integrity as an artist while also serving the Soviet state as required. His 10th Symphony, completed after the death of dictator Joseph Stalin, was a balancing act as well as a mid-life crisis set to music. The Phoenix Symphony welcomes pianists Michael Stephen Brown and Adam Golka to play Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos (No. 10), which Mozart composed for himself and his sister, Maria Anna, to perform. Tito Muñoz conducts the world premiere of a new piece by multidisciplinary artist Annie Nikunen exploring the connections between movement and sound.

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Mozart & Shostakovich: The Power of 10

Symphony Hall

Wrap yourself in the elegant complexity of Mozart's music, featuring pianist Michael Stephen Brown performing Mozart's only minor key piano concerto, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor.

Our Friend Mozart

University of Redlands

Let the music of solo piano sweep you off your seat, featuring pianist Michael Stephen Brown.

Pianist Michael Stephen Brown in Recital

First Presbyterian Church

"Brown's tangible charisma is matched with a monumental talent."

Michael Stephen Brown, piano Nicholas Canellakis, cello

University of South Alabama

Michael Stephen Brown, piano

Tucson Convention Center

To celebrate Chamber Music Sedona’s 40th Anniversary Season, we’re going BIG, featuring massive and groundbreaking works that will shatter any notion that chamber music is small scale. Mendelssohn’s beloved Octet, one of the greatest masterpieces of western music, will be joined by the epic and rarely heard Octet by Romanian composer George Enescu, along with something truly special: a brand new work by composer and Sedona favorite Michael Stephen Brown, co-commissioned by Chamber Music Sedona to commemorate our 40th year.

40th Anniversary Gala: Epic Octets

Sedona Performing Arts Center

Be dazzled by the impeccable virtuosity of some of the best string players in the country, each seen in a solo light as a prelude to our 40th Anniversary Gala, performing classical showpieces and wild folk tunes.

2023-Spring Salon: The Soloists in Sedona

Private Home

Experience the wide range of ideas, sounds, and cultures that have inspired composers from the Americas in the 20th century. The program opens and closes with vibrant, beloved classics by Copland and Gershwin brought about by their travels to Latin America. In between are short personal statements inspired by things close to each composers’ heart—their relationship with religion, their interpretation of native folk music, and a deeply intimate reaction to the death of a friend. Take a trip in sound from the pulsating dance hall to the quietest prayer in this exploration of music from the Western Hemisphere.

Voices of the Americas

Lincoln Center

Like a shooting star, Franz Schubert blazed across music's sky for a brief 31 years, leaving behind over 1,000 works that transformed the Classical into the Romantic age.
Four programs spanning Schubert's creative career and variety of compositions offer a rich journey into one of music's most ethereal worlds. A fifth concert explores how the legacy of Schubert and composers in the two centuries following his death have re-worked and been inspired by his compositions.

Winter Festival: Schubert Forever

The mind of the musical prodigy is a thing of wonder, and it is only through the music itself that we might sense something of the divine light that shone into them. Each composer here astounded equally as a child, carrying their extraordinary gifts onward through stellar careers. While the anecdotes of Mozart’s and Mendelssohn’s early talents are legendary, one is still shocked to hear that Saint-Saëns made his debut at age ten with concertos by Mozart and Beethoven, and Korngold’s ballet The Snowman was all the rage in Vienna when the composer was eleven.

Youthful Genius

A haunting, chilling masterpiece, Prokofiev’s Sonata No.1 in F Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 80 conveys the dread and despair of living in Stalin’s Soviet Union. 

Inside Chamber Music: Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor

Rose Studio

“This is a program of works that kept me company during the lockdown and carried me through the most difficult times. They explore the gamut of emotions and speak to the most vulnerable places of the human spirit. There are many threads uniting the music—the celebration of Haydn, the experience of injury and heartbreak, the influence of nature, and the evocation of dance. This program is a window into my inner world, presenting composers that I love while illuminating connections between music and life.” —Michael Stephen Brown

Michael Stephen Brown

Pianist

Events

26 - 28 Apr, 2024

Mozart & Shostakovich: The Power of 10 · Phoenix Symphony

Mar 9, 2024

Our Friend Mozart · Redlands Symphony

Mar 7, 2024

Pianist Michael Stephen Brown in Recital · Redlands Symphony

Jan 14, 2024

Michael Stephen Brown, piano Nicholas Canellakis, cello · Mobile Chamber Music

Nov 8, 2023

Michael Stephen Brown, piano · Arizona Friends of Chamber Music

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