Michael Stephen

Artist Bio

Michael Stephen Brown, piano

Winner of an Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown performs recitals and concertos worldwide and receives commissions from leading orchestras, performers, and chamber music festivals. As a composer, Brown was recently in residence at the Yaddo artist colony and performed his Piano Concerto with orchestras across the United States and Poland. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra commissioned and premiered his new orchestration of Brahms’s Handel Variations in Carnegie Hall. Connection, an album of original works featuring a large cast of performers, along with Mendelssohn+, are set for release in 2025. Brown is an alum of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program and resides in New York City with his two nineteenth-century Steinway D pianos, Octavia and Daria.