BRANDON KEITH BROWN has been named director of orchestral activities and assistant professor of music at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he will also serve as music director of the University of Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra. Third-prize winner of the 2012 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Competition, Brown has guest conducted the Manhattan School of Music, Omaha (Neb.), and Astoria (N.Y.) symphony orchestras; the Macon (Ga.) Sinfonia; the Yakima (Wash.) Chamber Orchestra; the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia; the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; the Badische Staatskapelle; and members of the Vienna Philharmonic. He has served as cover conductor for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, assistant conductor/fellow at the Waterloo-Cedar Falls (Iowa) Symphony Orchestra, and assistant conductor at Peabody Institute, from which he graduated with a master’s degree in orchestral conducting. Brown has also participated in master classes with the Cincinnati and Fort Worth symphony orchestras. He began his musical training in violin, and studied that instrument with Roland and Almita Vamos.
Posted April 19, 2013
