Elizabeth Brown
Shakuhachi & Composer
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http://elizabethbrowncomposer.com/
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Elizabeth Brown combines a composing career with a diverse performing life, playing flute, shakuhachi, and theremin in a wide variety of musical circles. Her music has been heard in Japan, the Soviet Union, Colombia, Australia, South Africa and Vietnam as well as across the US and Europe, and includes many compositions for traditional Japanese instruments. Grand Prize Winner in the Makino Yutaka Composition Competition for Japanese traditional instrument orchestra, she was also a prizewinner in the Senzoku Gakuen Shakuhachi Composition Competition. Her music has been performed by Ongaku Shudan, Reigakusha, Music From Japan, Orchestra Asia, Duo Yumeno, Yoko Hiraoka, Momoka Enomoto (Satsuma biwa), and Kohei Nishikawa (nohkan), among others. Since she premiered Mirage, for shakuhachi and string quartet, with the Grainger Quartet at the World Shakuhachi Festival 2008 in Sydney, it has also been performed in Tokyo, Prague, and New York City. Recent activities include Tokyo performances with Ralph Samuelson, shakuhachi and ichigenkin player Issui Minegishi; Premiering Dialect, for solo shakuhachi, at the World Shakuhachi Festival 2018 in London; playing theremin with the Boston Symphony; and playing flute with Music from Japan. Brown started studying shakuhachi with Ralph Samuelson in 1982, and has also studied with Yamato Shudo and Mizuno Koumei in Japan. She performs both Kinko-ryu and modern pieces. A Juilliard graduate and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Brown has received grants, awards and commissions from Orpheus, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Newband, Asian Cultural Council, Japan/US Friendship Commission, Japan Foundation, Music from Japan, NewMusicUSA, and NYFA. She was a Fellow at Bellagio and at the MacDowell Colony, and Artist-in-Residence at the Hanoi National Conservatory and in Grand Canyon National Park. Her CD Elizabeth Brown: Mirage is available from New World Records.
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