| Biography | Hamish Brown is a pianist, accompanist, organist, composer, arranger and conductor based in London, UK.
Hamish was born in 1993 and grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire. From 2006-11, he was a music scholar at Marlborough College, where he studied piano with Paul Turner. In February 2011, performed the first movement of Rachmaninoffs Piano Concerto No. 2 in a collaboration with the Southbank Sinfonia. He later read music at the University of Manchester, studying piano with Andrew Wilde, gaining a MusB(Hons) with first class honours in July 2014. He has gained DipABRSM and LRSM diplomas, both with distinction, in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
He is currently studying at the RCM for an MPerf in Piano Accompaniment with Simon Lepper and Roger Vignoles. From 2014-15, under the tuition of Elizabeth Burley, he took part in the BBC Pathway Scheme in collaboration with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has performed on BBC Radio 3. He was awarded both the Preliminary and First Prizes for accompaniment in the Brooks-van der Pump English Song Competition, and the Titanic Memoriam Prize at the Lies Askonas Song Competition, in April and May 2015 respectively. In June 2015, Hamish performed in the RCM Rising Stars series, accompanying Takashi Yoshimatsus Fuzzy Bird Sonata with saxophonist Philip Attard at the Cadogan Hall.
Hamish has also performed as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist in many other venues including the Carole Nash Recital Room, the Princess Alexandra Hall at the Royal Over-Seas League, the V&A Museum, the Royal Festival Hall, Alexandra Palace and Wigmore Hall. Hamish has taken part in masterclasses given by pianists such as Anna Markland, Ronan OHora, Philip Fowke, Peter Lawson and Michael Dussek, and played in masterclasses by singers such as Deborah York, Elly Ameling and Sir Thomas Allen.
As a conductor, Hamish has studied with Mark Heron, and conducted music by Michael Finnissy (in the presence of the composer), Adam Gorb, Jurriaan Andriessen, and many of his own original compositions. In early 2014, he was music director of St. Clements Church, Chorlton and its choir. |