Orchestra
2022
Elias Peter Brown
Assistant conductor 2022
Elias Peter Brown, who was appointed as the assistant conductor of KNSO in 2022, began his conducting studies at the age of 17 in St. Petersburg, Russia. After graduating with honors from Yale University and the Royal Academy of Music in the U.K., he won the first-place prize and the Orchestra Award at the 1st Korean International Conducting Competition. He also won the third-place prize at the Khachaturian International Conducting Competition in 2021, and the second-place prize at the Lake Como Conducting Competition. Brown has experience as an assistant conductor for Oliver Knussen, Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardiner, Jac van Steen, and others, and conducted various orchestras, such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, amongst others.
Deeply passionate about arts education, he has worked as a teaching artist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as a guest conductor at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, and as a mentor for the art and community-building project ‘Gakko’ in Japan and France. Also, as an accomplished trumpet player, Brown has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and principal trumpet at the Chicago Symphony Hall, The Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Mariinsky Theatre, etc. His principal teachers include Sian Edwards, Daniel Boico, and he has participated in the master classes by Marin Alsop, Mark Stringer, Robert Treviño, and Martyn Brabbins. He has also received mentorship from Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gerard McBurney. He is currently studying with Steven Sloane and Harry Curtis at Universität der Künste, Berlin.
Deeply passionate about arts education, he has worked as a teaching artist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as a guest conductor at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, and as a mentor for the art and community-building project ‘Gakko’ in Japan and France. Also, as an accomplished trumpet player, Brown has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and principal trumpet at the Chicago Symphony Hall, The Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Mariinsky Theatre, etc. His principal teachers include Sian Edwards, Daniel Boico, and he has participated in the master classes by Marin Alsop, Mark Stringer, Robert Treviño, and Martyn Brabbins. He has also received mentorship from Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gerard McBurney. He is currently studying with Steven Sloane and Harry Curtis at Universität der Künste, Berlin.