Honduran-American conductor Nicholas Alexander Brown is the music director and founder of The Irving Fine Society Singers & Ensemble as well as Boston Unhinged Chamber Players. He recently completed an internship at The White House, serving in the Social Office of the Office of the First Lady. He is assistant conductor of the King’s College London Symphony Orchestra. Previous positions include staff conductor for Boston Opera Collaborative, assistant conductor of the Brandeis University Chorus, Brandeis University Chamber Choir and Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra. He has also served as apprentice conductor for the 215th Army Band (U.S. Army).
As a guest conductor Nicholas has collaborated with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Honduras, Orion Symphony Orchestra, Kammerphilharmonie Graz, the Valley Forge Military Academy & College Regimental Band and Regimental Choir and the New England Conservatory Youth Repertory Orchestra. In conducting workshops and master classes he has studied with Jorma Panula, Markus Lehtinen, Achim Holub, Diane Wittry, Anthony Maiello and Adrian Gnam. His conducting teachers and mentors include Jeffrey Rink, Toby Purser, Dominic Grier, Neal Hampton, Stephen Czarkowski and James Olesen.
Nicholas is a Baritone vocalist, and is a member of the London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus and Tanglewood Festival Chorus. As a chorister he has performed under the batons of Sir Colin Davis, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Sir Andrew Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Oliver Knussen, Vladimir Jurowski, Edward Gardner and Keith Lockhart. He has also performed with the Brandeis University Chorus & Chamber Choir and Voices of Freedom. As a soloist he has performed throughout the United States and Europe.
As a French horn player Nicholas is a member of the 215th Army Band, stationed in Fall River, MA, and was associate principal of the King's College London Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with the Commonwealth Brass Quintet, Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra, Opera Camerata of Washington, Wellesley Symphony Orchestra, Brandeis Wind Ensemble, and the Valley Forge Military Academy & College Regimental Band. He has performed as a soloist with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Honduras and at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. 
He has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Boston's Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall, Tanglewood, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, the Barbican, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall in London, Salisbury Cathedral, the Embassy of France in Washington D.C., Mirabell Palace in Salzburg, Austria and Teatro Nacional Manuel Bonilla in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Nicholas received a Master of Music in Musicology from King's College London. His Master’s dissertation is entitled “A New American Salute: Leonard Bernstein’s Examination of 20th Century American Social Identity in Songfest,” completed under the supervision of Dr. Andy Fry. He is a Magna cum Laude graduate of Brandeis University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Music (High Honors) and History, with a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. His research and performance activities 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.
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