Pianist Lydia Brown has performed extensively as a soloist and collaborative pianist throughout the world. A recent graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ms. Brown won Second Prize in the 1996 New Orleans International Piano Competition and was honored as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts.

Recent recital appearances include performances at such notable venues as the Salle Cortot, Caramoor, the Goethe Institute, and Steinway Hall, among others. Ms. Brown recently performed at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Weill Recital Hall, and the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music Series. She has collaborated with Brenda Patterson and Sarah Wolfson, the 2004 and 2005 winners of the Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital, and has completed concert tours with vocalists and instrumentalists sponsored by Young Concert Artists, the Piatigorsky Foundation, and the Pro Musicis Foundation.

Lydia Brown has studied art song with Elly Ameling and pianist Rudolf Jansen at the Academie Villecroze and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. She holds a doctorate from The Juilliard School as well as degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Yale University. Her primary teachers have been Olga Radosavljevich, Nelita True, Peter Frankl, and Margo Garrett. Ms. Brown serves as a staff pianist at the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival, as well as on the musical coaching staffs of the Westminster Choir College COOPERAtive Training Program and Spoleto Festival USA.