The Conservatory of Music recently received the following announcement from WQXR, which included impressive news about pianist and faculty member Michael Brown:
“Five Avery Fisher Career Grants Awarded for 2015
“On March 18 at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WQXR, Joseph W. Polisi, the program’s chairman, Charles Avery Fisher and Nancy Fisher announced five 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipients: Paul Huang, Kristin Lee and Simone Porter, violinists; Matthew Lipman, violist; and Michael Brown, pianist.
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Past grant recipients have included Joshua Bell, Edgar Meyer, Sarah Chang, Hillary Hahn, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Conrad Tao, Richard Stoltzman, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Jeremy Denk, Gil Shaham and Conservatory faculty member and Distinguished Professor Ursula Oppens. When congratulated about this rarified honor, Michael could only say, “I’m incredibly honored and excited about it.” We look forward to the April 6 WQXR broadcast as well as the WNET NYC-ARTS program in recognition of the five honorees.
Michael, who joined the piano faculty last year as an adjunct assistant professor, also recently won a competition to become a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two in 2015, where he will join his longtime collaborator in The Canellakis-Brown Duo, cellist/filmmaker Nicholas Canellakis, who also serves on the Conservatory faculty. Michael’s already impressive credentials as performer, both of modern and classical works, and composer continue to grow. The conservatory is pleased to welcome Michael on board and congratulates him on both of these momentous artistic accomplishments.
