Michael Brown

Age: 22

Citizenship: USA

Country of birth: USA

Residing in: USA

 

Professional training:

The Julliard School, New York, NY, USA; BM

 

Prizes won:

2008, Quarter-finalist, Hilton Head, SC, USA

   Hilton Head International Piano Competition

2007, 1^st prize, New York, NY, USA

   Gina Bachauer Piano Competition at
   The Juilliard School

2005, 1^st prize, New York, NY, USA

    Friday Woodmere Young Artists Competition

 

 

 

Performance highlights:

2009, Recitals at Caramoor Music Festival, Katonah, NY, USA and 

    Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall, New York, NY, USA

2008, Recitals at Ravinia Music Festival, Highland Park, IL, USA and

    Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s, New York, NY, USA

2005, Concerti with Long Island Philharmonic and

    Manhattan School of Music Philharmonic, NY, USA

 

PROGRAM

 

Round One:

Bach                            Prelude and Fugue in C Major, WTC II: 1       

Beethoven                    Sonata in F Major, Op. 54                              

Perle                            Six Celebratory Inventions                               

Chopin                         Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12

                                    (“Revolutionary”)                     

           

 

Round Two:

Schumann                     Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6                            

                                                                                                           

Semi-Final Round:

Copland                       Piano Sonata                                                              

Debussy                       Pour les agréments,                                                   

Pour les notes répétées,                     

Pour les arpèges composés

(Douze études, Book II: 8, 9, 11)

Liszt                             Au bord d'une source,
                                    Orage,

Vallée d'Obermann

(Années de pèlerinage, 1e année, Suisse: Nos. 4-6)

                                                                                                           

Final Round:

Beethoven                    Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15