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First name: Christopher
Last name: Auerbach-Brown
Dates: 1970
Category: Quartet
Nationality: American
Opus name: Piano Quartet (2012)
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Peculiarities: https://composers.com/christopher-auerbach-brown https://composers.com/composition/25617/piano-quartet
Information: Composer Website: http://auerbach-brown.bandcamp.com/ Christopher Auerbach-Brownn (b.1970) received his BM in Composition from Ithaca College where his major teachers were Dana Wilson and Gregory Woodward. He went on to complete his MM in Composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Donald Erb. He has studied conducting with Steven Smith, former associate conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and conductor of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Mr. Auerbach-Brown received his first composition award in college, when he won the New York State Federation of Music Clubs’ Composition Competition with his first piece, a two-movement work for french horn and piano. He was awarded an ASCAP Young Composers’ Award in 1996 for his Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano; later that year he attended June in Buffalo, an intensive one-week seminar for composers and performers of contemporary music. The Trio received its New York premiere in September of 1999 in Weill Recital Hall, on the Vector 5 contemporary music series. His String Quartet was also premiered by the Cavani Quartet at Weill Hall in December of 1997. In 1998 Mr. Auerbach-Brown was the recipient of a Charles Ives Scholarship given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters to “composition students of great promise. (https://composers.com/christopher-auerbach-brown) …