NICHOLAS ALEXANDER BROWN

 Nicholas Alexander Brown, whose conducting is considered "dexterous and confident...[with] subtle, seamless baton strokes," is the music director and founder of The Irving Fine Society Singers & Ensemble, and Boston Unhinged Chamber Players. He is Assistant Conductor of the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra as well as the Brandeis University Chorus & Chamber Choir. He recently made his debut with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Honduras as a guest conductor and horn soloist.

Nicholas has conducted ensembles such as the 215h Army Band, Valley Forge Military Academy & College Regimental Band and Regimental Choir, New England Conservatory Youth Repertory Orchestra, as well as the Kammerphilharmonie Graz, Norwalk Symphony and Montgomery College Symphony in workshops and reading sessions. He served as a staff conductor for Boston Opera Collaborative. Nicholas has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Boston's Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall, Tanglewood, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, the Embassy of France in Washington D.C., the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Mirabell Palace in Salzburg, Austria and Teatro Nacional Manuel Bonilla in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In workshops and masterclasses he has studied with Jorma Panula, Markus Lehtinen, Achim Holub, Diane Wittry, Toby Purser, Anthony Maiello and Adrian Gnam. His conducting teachers and mentors include Jeffrey Rink, Stephen Czarkowski, Neal Hampton, and James Olesen.

As a French horn player, Nicholas is a member of the 215th Army Band, stationed in Fall River, MA. He performs with the Commonwealth Brass Quintet from the 215th Army Band, as well as the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra. He has performed with Opera Camerata of Washington, Wellesley Symphony Orchestra, Brandeis Wind Ensemble, and the Valley Forge Military Academy & College Regimental Band.

Nicholas is also a Baritone vocalist, currently a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus under the direction of John Oliver, having performed under Sir Colin Davis, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Sir Andrew Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Keith Lockhart. He also sings in the Brandeis University Chorus & Chamber Choir, and the 215th Army Band's Voices of Freedom. He studies voice with Pamela Wolfe.

In music management Nicholas is the concert coordinator assistant and ensemble manager for the Brandeis University Department of Music. Nicholas was previously a public relations intern with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as the music librarian and administrative non-commissioned officer for the Valley Forge Military Academy & College Department of Music.

His musical research and performances have been supported by grants from the Brandeis University Office of the Arts, the Center for German and European Studies, and the Max Kade Foundation.

Nicholas is a member of the Conductor's Guild, having served on the 2009 Annual Conference Planning Committee.

© Nicholas Alexander Brown, 1/9/2010

For more information please contact nabrown@brandeis.edu