Almost forgot my bio: Mr. Auerbach-Brown 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. Mr. Auerbach-Brown was awarded an ASCAP Young Composers’ Award in 1996 for his Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano. 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 Artsand Letters to “composition students of great promise.” His arrangements of Hasu Patels works for sitar and orchestra were performed by the Doctors Orchestra of Houston (Texas), and by the Plymouth Canton Symphony (Michigan) in Februrary and March of 2008. Mr. Auerbach-Brown has received commissions from the No Exit Ensemble, the Finger Lakes Music Educators Association, Parade the Circle, the Music Settlement, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and percussionist Donald Miller. Mr. Auerbach-Brown is a member of the Cleveland Composers’ Guild and the American Composers’ Alliance. He plays alto saxophone, musical saw, and melodica in the chamber collective TheTrepanning Trio.
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