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Justin Brown

Justin Brown is a conductor and pianist who has achieved prominence in the U.S. and Germany in addition to his native England. As conductor of the Alabama Symphony, he raised that orchestra's national profile in addition to strengthening its roots at home. Brown was born in London on March 2, 1964, and grew up in the suburb of Sussex. His father was an engineering professor, and his mother was a schoolteacher; both were also amateur musicians. Brown took up the piano at age four and the violin at nine. He was a skilled athlete as a youth, serving as captain of his school's soccer and cricket teams, but he settled on music as a student at Cambridge University. After receiving his degree, Brown worked for the English National Opera and the Scottish Opera and held assistant conductor positions under Leonard Bernstein and Luciano Berio. He made his conducting debut at the British premiere of the stage version of Bernstein's Mass. Brown's recording debut came in 1988 when he led Bernstein's Candide with the Scottish Opera, filling in for John Mauceri after contractual restrictions prevented Mauceri from participating. In 2006, Brown became music director of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham. Over six seasons there, he strengthened the orchestra, which had hit a low point in the 1990s and closed temporarily. He enlarged the orchestra's core group, established a new youth symphony under the orchestra's auspices, moved to strengthen relationships with the city's large African American population, and brought the orchestra back into the recording world with the 2012 release Paul Lansky: Imaginary Islands on the Bridge label. In 2011, Brown stood down as music director so that he could take a new position as music director of the Badische Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Germany. He stayed on in Alabama as music director laureate and has continued to conduct there. He remained in Karlsruhe until 2020, conducting both opera and symphonic music, and he has appeared widely as a guest conductor in both fields with such groups as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Dresden Philharmonic, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Brown remains active as a pianist, and in 2023, he backed contralto Claudia Huckle and tenor Nicky Spence on a recording of the original piano autograph version of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.
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