Australian born Aaron Brown is a performer and composer with a focus on
historical instruments and repertoires, improvisation, and genre-bending new music based on historical sources. Aaron has worked extensively as a performer with many prominent artists and ensembles in Australia, the United States and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Farinelli and the King (Broadway production), New Vintage Baroque, Oracle Hysterical, L’Arpeggiata, Francesco Tristano, Kinan Azmeh, Mark Morris Dance Group, Early Music New York, Opera Lafayette, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, New Bach Players, New Juilliard Ensemble (premiering a work by Steve Reich), and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Le Poisson Rouge, National Sawdust, Rockwood Music Hall, BOZAR Brussels, Grand Teatre Luxembourg, the Arsenal in Metz, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia Universities, City Recital Hall (Sydney) and the Melbourne Recital Centre. Recording credits include two solo albums, and numerous other releases on the ABC Classics, Hyperion, Naxos, CD Accord, and Lyrichord labels. In 2019 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to conduct research in Europe in medieval and early modern performance practices and approaches to improvisation. Aaron is currently a PhD candidate in music composition at UQ. |