Elias Brown
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Curious and versatile
Conductor
‘Brown is one of those conductors who really lives the piece, conducts with his whole body. His gestures are immediately strong, immediately subtle’
Klasika Plus
Conducting leading orchestras and curating imaginative collaborations across artforms, Elias Brown is a quintessentially modern conductor – curious, versatile and future-focused.
He has been personally mentored by Esa-Pekka Salonen as Salonen Fellow for 2023/24, serving as Assistant Conductor to him at San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and Ensemble Intercontemporain, and most recently in a new Simon McBurney production of Khovanshchina at Salzburg Easter Festival.
Brown’s own talents as a composer and improviser, and his love of new music, have strengthened collaborations with leading contemporary ensembles across Europe, including Ensemble Modern, Ensemble MusikFabrik and Divertimento Ensemble.
Brown is fascinated by the intersection between artforms and new ways of presenting music. His Master's thesis at Royal Academy of Music explored the theory and practice of concert curation and recent examples of his own curation have included CAVE, a site-specific performance in the Brunel Museum, selected by the Prague Quadrennial 2019; and less than a grain of dust for Yale University Art Gallery.
‘An orchestra is a civic institution with which we can create a space for thinking about society and ourselves – questioning and contemplating’
Elias Brown
