Pianist will perform with orchestra and give solo recital

Pianist and composer Michael Stephen Brown, winner of the 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center, will be presented by the Redlands Symphony Orchestra in two concerts in Redlands, in a solo recital Thursday and as a soloist in the orchestra’s March 9 concert.

The Thursday recital, part of the Redlands Symphony’s Redlands Recital Series, will be at 7:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Redlands, 100 Cajon St.

Brown will play two of his own compositions, “Etude-fantasy on the Name of Haydn” and “Breakup Etude for Right

Hand Alone,” according to a news release.

The program also includes a Fantasia by Joseph Haydn, Claude Debussy’s “Hommage à Haydn” and Maurice Ravel’s “Menuet sur le nom d’haydn,” plus music by Felix Mendelssohn and Delphine von Schauroth.

Tickets for the recital are $25 for adults, $10 for children 12 and younger and $5 for students, available at redlandssymphony.com.

In the Redlands Symphony Orchestra’s March 9 concert, Brown will solo in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor.

The concert is at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel on the University

of Redlands campus, 1200 E. Colton Ave.

Ransom Wilson, the orchestra’s music director and conductor, will direct the orchestra in the all-mozart concert, “Our Friend Mozart.”

In addition to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, the program includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 and the Overture to the opera “Cosi fan tutte.”

Tickets for the March 9 concert are $20 to $80, available at redlandssymphony.com.

Michael Stephen Brown received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano and composition from the Juilliard School, where he studied with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Robert Mcdonald and composers Samuel

Adler and Robert Beaser.

He has appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center and has been featured at many festivals, including Tanglewood, Marlboro and Ravinia, according to the news release. He has also toured his own Concerto for Piano and Strings (2020) throughout the United States and Poland.

His recordings include music of Olivier Messiaen with the Seattle Symphony, conducted by Ludovic Morlot; music by Samuel Adler with the Brandenburg State Symphony; and Beethoven’s “Eroica Variations.”

For information about Brown, go to michaelbrownmusic.com.