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Conducting leading orchestras, curating imaginative collaborations across artforms, and working as a composer and improviser, Elias Brown is a quintessentially modern artist – a searching musician who is at home across a wide range of repertoire, disciplines and cultural contexts. He was recently named the 2026 winner of the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award by the Solti Foundation U.S.
He has recently made debuts with Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSB), Danish Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Brown was mentored by Esa-Pekka Salonen, as a former Salonen Fellow, and has worked as his assistant with San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and Ensemble Intercontemporain as well as, most recently, at Salzburg Easter Festival. He has also served as Assistant Conductor with Odense Symphony Orchestra and Korean National Symphony Orchestra, as Solti Opera Residency Fellow at Washington National Opera, and at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi.
Recent highlights include conducting Ensemble Modern at Acht Brücken Festival and appearances with Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Flemish Symphony Orchestra, Nürnberger Symphoniker and Magdeburg Philharmonic. As a composer and improviser with a strong affinity for new music, he has collaborated with Ensemble MusikFabrik, Ensemble Zafraan, Spectra Ensemble and Divertimento Ensemble. In 2021, he won First Prize and the orchestra prize at the Korean Conducting Competition, leading to further engagements in Korea.
Brown’s interest in interdisciplinary performance informs his work as a curator. His Master’s research at the Royal Academy of Music explored concert curation and was later published in Glissando Magazine. Projects include Memory Systems / Memory Spaces (UdK Berlin, 2024), CAVE (Brunel Museum, Prague Quadrennial selection) and less than a grain of dust (Yale University Art Gallery). Brown studied at Yale University, the Royal Academy of Music and Universität der Künste Berlin, and was a Forum Dirigieren scholar. He has been supported by the Solti Foundation US with two Career Assistance Awards.
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18-19 October 2025 | Odense Symphony Orchestra
Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, DK
Magiske Tage Festival
22 October 2025 | GAIDA Festival | Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
National Philharmonic Hall, Vilnius, LT
Pascal DUSAPIN - Khora
Silvija MILIUNAITE - Fire Dances (world premiere)
Kristupas BUBNELIS - Substantia Innominata (world premiere)
Sofia GUBAIDULINA – Introitus
Piano ANDRIUS ZLABYS
13-17 December 2025 | Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Harpa, Reykjavik, IS
Christmas Concerts
24 January 2026 | Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin
Thomas ADÈS - Powder Her Face” – Suite No.1 for orchestra
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH - “The Golden Age” – Suite from the ballet op. 22a
George GERSHWIN - “An American in Paris”
Songs by WEILL and GERSHWIN
with JOCELYN B. SMITH, vocals
21 February 2026 | Danish Chamber Orchestra
Danish Royal Academy Concert Hall, Copenhagen, DK
RO PÅ: works by Matias VESTERGÅRD, Mads Emil DREYER, Aya YOSHIDA, Magnus PLEJDRUP,
John FRANDSEN, Niels RØNSHOLDT, TEITUR, SØS Gunver Ryberg, Arnannguaq GERSTRØM, Louise ALENIUS
Listen here.
4 March 2026 | Currents Festival
EXIL, Zürich, CH
Live Electronics with Claire Dickson - Balance (New Amsterdam, 2026)
7 March 2026 | VEXATIONS | Hosek Contemporary
Berlin, DE
Erik SATIE: Vexations
with Monika Błaszczak, dancer/choreographer
21 March 2026 | Birds of Paradise Festival
Club Nine, Tivoli Vredenberg, Utrecht, NL
Live Electronics with Claire Dickson - Balance (New Amsterdam, 2026)
23 April 2026 | after | Berlin
Artist talk with Gideon Broshy (composer-performer) and Gregor Quack (curator, Neue Nationalgalerie)
for Nest (New Amsterdam, 2025)
23 May 2026 | MATA Festival | BlackBox Ensemble
Dimemma Center, NYC
Kristupas BUBNELIS / Elias Peter BROWN: ...please leave your message after the tone... (2021, 18’)
26 & 28 June 2026 | Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, Spoleto, IT
Samuel BARBER - Vanessa
Direttore Musica da Scena / Cover Conductor
July 2026 | Hotel Pupik Artists’ Residency
Steiermark, AT
Residency with Claire Dickson
7-8 August 2026 | Hotel Pupik Artists’ Residency Presentation
Steiermark, AT
Performance with Claire Dickson
Further dates to be announced soon.
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VIDEO
Carl NIELSEN: Symphony no. 4 “The Inextinguishable” - IV: Allegro
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Claude DEBUSSY: La Mer: II. Jeux de vagues
Korean National Symphony Orchestra
W.A. MOZART: Zauberflöte Overture
Erzgebirgische Philharmonie
Erzgebirgische Philharmonie
Isabella GELLIS: What Shall We Do [2023]
Colburn Chamber Orchestra
Colburn Chamber Orchestra
Gustav MAHLER: Symphony no. 4 [arr. Simon]
Colburn Chamber Orchestra
Colburn Chamber Orchestra
NEWS
16 July 2026 | Elias is named winner of the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award by the Solti Foundation U.S. As the Solti Fellow, Elias receives $30,000 as well as ongoing professional mentoring and introductions to two of Chicago’s most established performing arts organizations: Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
16 June 2026 | Test pressings for the ACCORDATURA LP finished! Eli’s album of works by Kristupas Bubnelis with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra scheduled for release in October 2026 on MIC.LT.
23 May 2026 | ...please leave your message after the tone... [2020] receives its US Premiere at the 28th Annual MATA Festival, performed by BlackBox Ensemble.
6 March 2026 | Brown’s work with the Danish Chamber Orchestra is featured on Denmark’s Radio P2. Listen back here.
16 May 2024 | Elias is selected for a Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award as well as the Elizabeth Buccheri Opera Residency Fellowship, assisting Evan Rogister at Washington National Opera.
27 April 2024 | Elias is appointed Assistant Conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra, where he will work closely with Music Director Pierre Bleuse and conduct 12 of his own concerts with the orchestra.
1 September 2023 | Elias begins as Salonen Fellow in the Negaunee Conducting Program at the Colburn School and San Francisco Symphony.
16 July 2026 | Elias is named winner of the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award by the Solti Foundation U.S. As the Solti Fellow, Elias receives $30,000 as well as ongoing professional mentoring and introductions to two of Chicago’s most established performing arts organizations: Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
16 June 2026 | Test pressings for the ACCORDATURA LP finished! Eli’s album of works by Kristupas Bubnelis with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra scheduled for release in October 2026 on MIC.LT.
23 May 2026 | ...please leave your message after the tone... [2020] receives its US Premiere at the 28th Annual MATA Festival, performed by BlackBox Ensemble.
6 March 2026 | Brown’s work with the Danish Chamber Orchestra is featured on Denmark’s Radio P2. Listen back here.
16 May 2024 | Elias is selected for a Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award as well as the Elizabeth Buccheri Opera Residency Fellowship, assisting Evan Rogister at Washington National Opera.
27 April 2024 | Elias is appointed Assistant Conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra, where he will work closely with Music Director Pierre Bleuse and conduct 12 of his own concerts with the orchestra.
1 September 2023 | Elias begins as Salonen Fellow in the Negaunee Conducting Program at the Colburn School and San Francisco Symphony.
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