In the 2025/26 season Brown makes his conducting debuts with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin), Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Danish Chamber Orchestra (Danmarks Underholdningsorkester) and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, while continuing his relationship with the Odense Symphony Orchestra. In January 2026 his first album recorded with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, a spotlight on microtonal orchestral works by Kristupas Bubnelis, will be released on the Music Information Centre Lithuania Label.
Last season saw his debut with Ensemble Modern (Acht Brücken Festival) and twelve concert dates with Odense Symphony Orchestra in his position as assistant conductor, as well as projects at the Salzburg Easter Festival as assistant conductor to Esa-Pekka Salonen and at Washington National Opera as the Solti Opera Residency Fellow.
He was previously a Salonen Fellow at the Colburn School, during which he was closely mentored by Esa-Pekka Salonen and made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony for the Soundbox New Music Series. He also worked as assistant conductor to Salonen with the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and Ensemble Intercontemporain. In 2021, he won first prize and the orchestra prize in the Korean Conducting Competition, and subsequently had numerous concerts with the Korean National Symphony Orchestra and the Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra.
Deeply committed to new music, Brown has worked with Zafraan Ensemble, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Divertimento Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, and the New European 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 was later published in Glissando Magazine. 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.
Brown completed his studies at Yale University, Royal Academy of Music, and Universität der Künste Berlin, and received additional mentorship and training while a Stipendiat of the German Music Council’s Forum Dirigieren. He has also been a two-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award. His teachers have been Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sian Edwards, Harry Curtis, Steven Sloane, and Daniel Boico, and he has participated in masterclasses with David Zinman, Marin Alsop, Mark Stringer, Johannes Schlaefli, and Larry Rachleff.
He is based in Berlin.
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General Management
Maestro Arts
- Rachel Van Walsum rachel@maestroarts.com
- Jordi Martin Mont jordi@maestroarts.com
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Instagram: @eliaspeterbrown
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Recent Highlights
2025-26
Debuts with Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Danish and Lithuanian Chamber Orchestras
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