Michael Stephen Brown, Piano

Michael Stephen Brown, hailed by the New York Times as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers,” takes audiences at The Four Arts on an epic journey in this multifaceted recital. He folds his own animated compositions into a lively sequence of works that goes from Haydn to Haydn-inspired music of the 20th century to masterpieces of Ravel and Mendelssohn. Brown’s Etude-Fantasy picks up where earlier Haydn homages left off, and his Breakup Etude passionately reflects on Pandemic isolation.