Pianist Michael Stephen Brown has been hailed by the New York Times as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers.” Winner of the 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center and a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Brown has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras worldwide. He is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, having previously been a member of the Bowers Program. As a composer, Brown’s Concerto for Piano and Strings was premiered by the Kalamazoo Symphony and by the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra in Poland. For more information, visit michaelbrownmusic.com.