NICHOLAS ALEXANDER BROWN

Conductor, French Horn, Baritone, Arts Mgmt.

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Holiday Pops

Boston Pops Orchestra & Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Keith Lockhart, Conductor

December 21, 8:00pm

December 22, 4:00pm and 8:00pm

Symphony Hall,Boston

www.bostonpops.org

 

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NOTE: Concert listings are subject to change, and are added as information becomes available.

 

Left: Nicholas with Soprano Renee Fleming at Tanglewood

December 21, 2011, 8:00pm

December 22, 2011, 4:00pm & 8:00pm

December 23, 2011, 4:00pm & 8:00pm

December 24, 2011, 11:00am & 3:00pm

 

 

 

 

RECENT PERFORMANCES

 

May 1, 2010, 8pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 6, 2010, 8pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 11, 2010, 7:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 12, 2010, 7:00-9:00pm

 

   

 

 

 

 

May 18-22, 2010, 8pm

(May 19 - Presidents at Pops)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 23, 2010

10:30am (Main Ceremony)

1:30pm (School of Creative Arts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 27, 2010, 10am

 

 

 

 

 

May 31, 2010

 

 

 

 

June 4, 2010, 10:45am

 

 

 

 

 

June 7, 2010, 12:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

June 15, 2010, 5:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 17, 2010

 

 

 

 

June 26, 2010

 

 

 

 

July 3, 2010, 8:30pm (Preview)

July 4, 2010, 8:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 4, 2010, 12:00pm

 

 

 

 

 

July 10-24, 2010

 

 

 

July 15, 2010, 6:30pm

 

 

 

 

July 24-31, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

July 31, 2010, 8pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 14-28, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 August 21, 2010, 7:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 28, 2010, 8pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 25, 2010, 7:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 8, 2010, 7:00pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 30, 2010, 7:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 26, 2010, 7:00pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 12, 2010, 6:00pm

 

 

 

 

 

December 16, 2010, 7:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 26, 2010, 3pm & 7:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

January 6-8, 2011, 8:00pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 22, 2011, 7:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 18, 2011, 7:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 27, 2011, 7:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 26, 2011, 7:30pm, London

March 27, 2011, 7:30pm, Salisbury

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 3, 2011, 7:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 6 & 7, 2011, 8:30pm (Lille)

June 8, 2011, 8:30pm (Paris)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 29, 9:30pm

 

Holiday Pops

Boston Pops Orchestra & Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Keith Lockhart, Conductor

Symphony Hall,Boston

www.bostonpops.org

 

 

 

RECENT PERFORMANCES

 

The Irving Fine Tribute Concert

The Irving Fine Society Ensemble

Nicholas Alexander Brown, Conductor

Leonard Bernstein Scholars (2011)

FINE Fantasia for String Trio

FINE Serious Song, Lament for String Orch.

DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

COPLAND Appalachian Spring Suite

Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University

Part of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts

www.irvingfinesociety.org

 

Budzyn and the Show of Shows

The Irving Fine Society Singers & Ensemble

Nicholas Alexander Brown, Conductor

GEIST Kosmischer Fruhling

   Daesik Cha, Piano

   Georgia Luikens, Violin

   Sandi-Jo Malmon, Cello

GEIST Schlusschor from Skizzen zum Faustmusik

Sanders Theatre, Harvard University

http://www.budzyntheplay.com/

 

Montgomery College Faculty Recital

Stephen Czarkowski, Cello

Nicholas Alexander Brown, Baritone

Pin-Wey Huang, Piano

Barber Dover Beach

Bernstein To What You Said from Songfest

Montgomery College Rockville Campus

Rockville, Maryland

 

Hundred Club Ceremony & Dinner

Imperial Ballroom, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston

Keynote Speaker:
MG Joseph Carter, Mass. Adjutant General

Commonwealth Brass Quintet

SPC Nicholas A. Brown, National Anthem

 

"Stars and Stripes: American Heroes"

Boston Pops & Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Keith Lockhart, Conductor

Program Includes:

Peter Boyer The Dream Lives on: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers

May 18-19 includes:

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Arlo Guthrie

Patti Austin

Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Cherry Jones (Narrators)

Symphony Hall, Boston

www.bostonpops.org

 

Brandeis University Commencement

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Hon. Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador the the United States

SPECIAL APPEARANCE: Paul Simon

**Paul Simon will sing at the Main Ceremony and speak at the School of Creative Arts Mini-Commencement

NATIONAL ANTHEM:

Nicholas A. Brown, Baritone

Gosman Athletic & Convocation Center

Brandeis University

Waltham, Massachusetts

 

Remembering & Honoring Massachusetts

Military Heroes Ceremony

Soldiers & Sailors Monument, Boston Common

Beacon & Charles Street, Boston

National Athem: SPC Nicholas A. Brown

 

Memorial Day Parades

215th Army Band

Somerset, Massachusetts

Swansea, Massachusetts

 

DAV Liberty Mutual Invitational Golf Tournament

Voices of Freedom, 215th Army Band

National Anthem

Blue Hills Country Club

Canton, Massachusetts

 

Ancient & Honorable Artillery Day

Parade & Ceremony

215th Army Band

Faneuil Hall/Boston Common/Park Plaza Hotel

Boston, Massachusetts

 

Boston English High School Graduation

Commonwealth Brass Quintet

Keynote Speaker: MG Joseph Carter,

Adjutant General, Mass. National Guard

Metcalf Hall, Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

 

Mass. Army National Guard Mobilization Exercise (XCTC)

Commonwealth Brass Quintet

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts

 

Dew Tour Skate Open

National Anthem

Voices of Freedom, 215th Army Band

TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts

 

Pops Goes the Fourth!

Boston Pops & Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Keith Lockhart, Conductor

Craig Ferguson, Host

Toby Keith, Special Performance

Esplanade, Boston, Massachusetts

WBZ-TV Local Broadcast

CBS National Broadcast

www.bostonpops.org

 

Independence Day Ceremony

General George W. Gasey, Jr.

U.S. Army Chief of Staff

Distinguished Speaker

Gates Middle School, Scituate, Massachusetts

 

215th Army  Band Annual Training

Westover Air Reserve Base

Chicopee, Massachusetts

 

215th Army Band Concert Band

WOC Stephen Martins, SSG Steve Cohen, SPC Nicholas A. Brown, Conductors

Amelia Park, Westfield, Massachusetts

 

Aberystwyth MusicFest International Festival

Conducting Workshop with Toby Purser

Orion Symphony Orchestra

Aberystwyth, Wales

http://www.abermusicfest.org/intro.htm

 

Orion Symphony Orchestra

Toby Purser, Conductor

Rossini Overture to L'Italiana in Algieri

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 Italian

*Nicholas conducts the second movement*

Beethoven Triple Concerto

Tom Poster, Piano; Pavel Fisher, Violin

Guy Johnston, Cello

Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Aberystwyth, Wales

 

Weiz Conducting Masterclass

Kammerphilharmonie Graz

Achim Holub, Artistic Director & Chief Conductor

Kunsthaus Weiz

Weiz, Austria

http://www.kammerphilharmoniegraz.com/

 

Kammerphilharmonie Graz

Works by J.S. Bach
Suite für Orchester Nr. 2 h-moll BWV 1067
Violinkonzerte in E-Dur BWV 1042 und d-moll (rekonstruiert nach dem Cembalokonzert BWV 1052)
**Nicholas is conducting the third movement**
Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 5 D-Dur BWV 1050

Solistinnen:
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Violine; Sandra Kirschenhofer, Flöte
DirigentInnen: Achim Holub und
Teilnehmer aus Australien, Großbritannien, dem Iran, der Schweiz, Südafrika und den USA des Meisterkurses für Dirigenten Weiz 2010
Stiegenkirche, Sporgasse 21a, Graz, Austria

 

Kammerphilharmonie Graz

Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major

Schubert Symphony No. 5

Conducted by participants of the Weiz International Conducting Masterclass

Nicholas conducts the Allegro from Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major,

Marc Corbett-Weaver, piano

Kunsthaus Weiz, Weiz, Austria

 

Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Vladimir Jurowski  conductor

The Hilliard Ensemble**
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir

Haydn  Symphony No. 63 in C major (La Roxelane)
Matteo D'Amico  Flight from Byzantium (world première)*
Dufay  Moribus et genere**; Vergene bella**
Dufay  Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae**
Bartók  The Miraculous Mandarin (complete)

 

* Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with the assistance of the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana.

 

DELIUS The Song of the High Hills

ROXBURGH Concerto for Orchestra

ELGAR Falstaff

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

Olivia Robinson, soprano

Christopher Bowen, tenor

BBC Symphony Chorus

Barbican, London

 

ORFF Carmina Burana

BERLIOZ Rakoczy March

SAINT-SAENS Symphony No. 3 "Organ"

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Greenwood, conductor

Stephen Disley, organ

Charlotte Ellett, soprano

Colin Judson, tenor

Jacques Imbrailo, baritone

London Philharmonic Choir

Royal Choral Society

English Concert Chorus

Southend Boys' Choir

Royal Albert Hall, London

 

ANDERSON Heaven is Shy of Earth

SHEPHERD Wanderlust

COPLAND Eight poems of Emily Dickinson

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Oliver Knussen, conductor

Claire Booth, soprano

Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano

BBC Symphony Chorus

Barbican, London

 

Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (complete ballet)

King's College London Symphony Orchestra

Dominic Grier, Conductor

Great Hall, King's College London, London

www.kclso.org

 

Christmas Classics

London Philharmonic Orchestra

London Philharmonic Choir

Christopher Warren-Green, conductor

Amanda Roocroft, soprano

Julia McKenzie, reader

Royal Albert Hall, London

http://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/christmas/christmas-classics/default.aspx

 

Holiday Pops

Boston Pops & Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Keith Lockhart, Conductor

Symphony Hall, Boston

www.bostonpops.org

 

STRAVINSKY Oedipus Rex

BARTOK Bluebeard's Castle

James Levine, Conductor

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano (Jocasta & Judith)
Russell Thomas, tenor (Oedipus)
Matthew Plenk, tenor (Shepherd)
Albert Dohmen, baritone (Creon/Messenger & Duke)
Raymond Aceto, bass (Tiresias)
Frank Langella, narrator/Stravinsky

Örs Kisfaludy, narrator/Bartok

Symphony Hall, Boston

www.bso.org

 

FAURE Requiem

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir

Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Conductor

Sally Matthews, soprano

Gerald Finley, bass-baritone

Royal Festival Hall, London

http://www.lpo.co.uk/

 

SCHNITTKE "Seid nuchtern und wachet"

(Faust Cantata)

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1 in G minor,

"Winter Daydreams"

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano

David Hansen, counter-tenor

Robert Murray, tenor

Mark Stone, baritone

BBC Symphony Chorus

Barbican, London

 

King's College London Symphony Orchestra

Arts and Humanities Alumni Concert

BRAHMS Tragic Overture, Schicksalslied

MAHLER Das klagende Lied

Dominic Grier, Conductor

Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London

www.kclso.org

 

ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Edward Gardner, conductor

Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano

Paul Groves, tenor

Alastair Miles, bass

London Philharmonic Choir

Choir of Clare College Cambridge

Royal Festival Hall, London (March 26)

Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury (March 27)

 

PROKOFIEV Ivan the Terrible

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1

Xian Zhang, Conductor

Leila Josefowicz, Violin

London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Barbican, London

www.lso.co.uk

 

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem

Orchestre National de Lille

BBC Symphony Chorus

Jean-Claude Cassadeus, Conductor

Sally Matthews, Soprano

Dietrich Henschel, Bass-Baritone

Nouveau Siecle, Lille

Salle des concerts, La Cite de la Musique, Paris

CONCERT VIDEO FROM PARIS:

http://www.citedelamusiquelive.fr/Concert/0967718.html

 

MusicFest Aberystwyth Conductor Showcase

Orion Symphony Orchestra, Toby Purser, Conductor

MusicFest Conducting Students Conduct

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales