(c) Ilmė Vyšniauskaitė 2024Elias Peter Brown is a conductor, composer, improviser, and curator, seeking to create meaningful spaces for listening in and out of the concert hall. He is based in Berlin. Full biography here.
2024-25 Odense Symphony Orchestra / Assistant Conductor
Solti Foundation U.S. / Career Assistance Awardee
Ensemble Modern: ACHT BRÜCKEN / Guest Conductor
Salzburg Osterfestspiele: KHOVANSHCHINA /
Assistant Conductor to Esa-Pekka Salonen
Washington National Opera: MACBETH / Solti Foundation US Opera Residency, Assistant to Evan Rogister
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra / Portrait Album Recording with Kristupas Bubnelis for MICL
UdK Berlin / Guest Dozent: CRESCENDO Eröffnungskonzert
Migas Listening Bar - Regular Guest DJ
2023-24 San Francisco Symphony / Salonen Fellow
Colburn School / Negaunee Conducting Program
Deutsche Musikrat / Stipendiat Forum Dirigieren Solti Foundation U.S. / Career Assistance Awardee
Players of the LA Phil: HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT at BROAD STAGE / Guest Conductor San Francisco Symphony: SOUNDBOX / Guest Conductor
Ensemble Garage: SPOLETO FESTIVAL / Guest Conductor
Colburn Orchestra: MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 1 / Guest Conductor
Zafraan Ensemble & New Babylon Ensemble: CELLS / Guest Conductor
Assistant to Esa-Pekka Salonen with Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain, LA Phil
UdK Berlin / Guest Dozent: MEMORY SYSTEMS / MEMORY SPACES
2022-23 Korean National Symphony Orchestra / Assistant Conductor
Deutsche Musikrat / Stipendiat Forum Dirigieren
Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra: SEOUL ARTS CENTER SATURDAY CONCERT / Guest Conductor
Severočeská Filharmonie Teplice: MLADÁ PRAHA / Guest Conductor European Workshop for Contemporary Music: ACHT BRÜCKEN / Assistant Conductor
Electroacoustic work ‘Leave Your Message after the Tone’ released on MICL Label in collaboration with Kristupas Bubnelis and Twenty Fingers Duo
Artist-in-Residence: Hotel Pupik Artists Residency
Education Universität der Künste Berlin / Advanced Professional Training / 2022 Royal Academy of Music / M.Mus Conducting [Honors] / 2019 Yale University / B.A Music
[Honors] / 2017
LIVE
2025 30 June - 4 July 2025 | Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra Vilnius, Lithuania Double LP Portrait Recording
Kristupas BUBNELIS, composer
26 June | Odense Symphony Orchestra Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark A Musical Journey: Works by NIELSEN, PÄRT, RICHTER, PUCCINI, BERNSTEIN, and others Moderated by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark
14 June | Odense Symphony Orchestra Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark Rebecca SAUNDERS - Scar for ensemble
Per NØRGARD - Terrains vagues, for orchestra Pierre BOULEZ - Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, for orchestra in eight groups Assistant to PIERRE BLEUSE
11 May 2025 | Acht Brücken Festival | Ensemble Modern Filmforum Cologne, Köln, DE Liza LIM - The Heart's Ear (1997) Hilda PARADES - Forbidden Games (2019) Carmine Emanuele CELLA - La memoire de l'eau (2014)
1 May | Ensemble Modern
Frankfurt LAB, Frankfurt, DE
Liza LIM - The Heart's Ear (1997) Hilda PARADES - Forbidden Games (2019) Carmine Emanuele CELLA - La memoire de l'eau (2014)
12 & 21April | Salzburg Osterfestspiele | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, AT
Modest MUSSORGSKY - Khovanshchina
Production SIMON MCBURNEY
Dramaturgy / Advisor GERARD MCBURNEY
Assistant / Cover Conductor to ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
Co-production with the Metropolitan Opera New York
14 April | Salzburg Osterfestspiele | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, AT Esa-Pekka SALONEN - Cello Concerto
Jean SIBELIUS - Symphony no. 2 in D major
Violoncello SENJA RUMMUKAINEN
Assistant / Cover Conductor to ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
13 & 20 April | Salzburg Osterfestspiele | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Bayerische Rundfunk Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, AT
Gustav MAHLER - Symphony no. 2 "Resurrection" Soprano JULIE ROSET Alto JASMIN WHITE
Assistant / Cover Conductor to ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
1 February | Odense Symphony Orchestra Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark Voices of War — Moderated Concert with Adam Holm Ludwig van BEETHOVEN - Fidelio Overture Benjamin BRITTEN - Extracts from War Requiem Gustav MAHLER - Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen Steingrimur ROHLOFF - Extracts from War Requiem Ludwig van BEETHOVEN - Symphony no. 3 "Eroica" Baritone JOHANNES HELD
23 January | Odense Symphony Orchestra
Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark
Alexander BORODIN - Polovitsian dances from Prince Igor
Kaija SAARIAHO - Organ Concerto
Sergei RACHMANINOFF - Symphony no. 2 in e-minor, op. 27
Organ OLIVIER LATRY
Assistant / Cover Conductor to PIERRE BLEUSE
5, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18January |
Odense Symphony Orchestra Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark
New Year's Concerts Works by BRAHMS, STRAUSS II, LEHAR, GLINKA, H. C. LUMBYE, Carl Michael ZIEHRER, and others Soprano FREDERIKKE KAMPMANN Soloist SØREN PILMARK
2024
11, 12 December | Odense Symphony Orchestra
Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark Christmas Carolswith Det Fynske Kammerkor Soloist JULIE BERTHELSEN
7 December | California All-State CODA Honor Orchestra
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica, California Antonín DVOŘÁK - Selections from Slavonic Dances, op. 46
Reena ESMAIL - Testament from Vishwas (2017)
Igor STRAVINSKY - The Firebird Suite (1919)
29 November | Odense Symphony Orchestra & Danish Royal Opera Choir
Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark Jean-Frédéric NEUBURGER - Preludes pour cordes
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN - Symphony no. 9
Assistant / Cover Conductor to PIERRE BLEUSE
October-November | Washington National Opera
Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Solti Foundation U.S. Opera Residency Fellowship Giuseppe VERDI - Macbeth Assistant Conductor to EVAN ROGISTER
27 September | Odense Symphony Orchestra Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark Jean SIBELIUS - En Saga. Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR - Archora Carl NIELSEN - Symphony No. 5.
Assistant / Cover Conductor to EVA OLLIKAINEN
20-23 August | Helsinki Festival & Baltic Sea Festival| Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Musiikkitalo & Berwaldhallen Modest MUSSORGSKY - Khovanshchina (concert version) Assistant / Cover Conductor to ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
29-30 June | Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi: Ensemble Garage
Sala Pegasus, Spoleto, IT / Vapore D'Estate, Milan, IT
Baldwin GIANG - Scenes from the Post-Diaspora
5-6 April | San Francisco Symphony
Davies Hall, San Francisco: SoundBox New Music Series
Max RICHTER - Four Seasons Recomposed (extracts)
Antonio VIVALDI - The Four Seasons (extracts)
Philip GLASS - Glassworks
Curator CAROL RILEY
26 March | Colburn Chamber Players
Zipper Hall, Los Angeles György LIGETI - Melodien
William MARSEY - Why Do You Grieve [US Premiere]
Claude DEBUSSY (orch. Gale) - La Mer
15 February | Orchestre de Paris & Ensemble Intercontemporain
Paris Philharmonie, FR Jean SIBELIUS - The Oceanides
Kaija SAARIAHO - Notes on Light
Magnus LINDBERG - Kraft
Violoncello ANSSI KARTTUNEN
Assistant / Cover Conductor to ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
9 February | Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern
Großen Sendesaal des Saarländischen Rundfunks, Saarbrücken, DE Eun-Hwa CHO - Jouissance de la Différence II
Johannes SCHÖLLHORN - éste que ves (2016)
Arnold SCHÖNBERG - Piano Concerto op. 42
Stanislaw SKROWACZEWSKI - Music at Night
Dirigierwerkstatt and Concert supported by Forum Dirigieren des Deutschen Musikrates
31 January - 1 February | Orchestre de Paris
Paris Philharmonie Claude DEBUSSY - Images
Claude DEBUSSY - Fantasie for Piano & Orchestra
Igor STRAVINSKY-STUCKY - Les Noces
Assistant/Cover Conductor to ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
28 January | Colburn Orchestra
The Soraya, Northridge, CA Karl GOLDMARK - Violin Concerto in A minor
Gustav MAHLER - Symphony no. 1 in D Major
Violin EZRA SHCOLNIK
15 January | Coburg Landestheater
Globe Theater, Coburg, DE Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Sinfonietta No. 1 "In Memoriam Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
Max REGER - Mozart-Variations op. 132
W.A. MOZART - Symphony no. 40 in g-minor KV 550