Now at Copland House

MATT BROWNE returns to Rock Hill after having been a 2014 Fellow of our CULTIVATE Emerging Composers Institute, for which he wrote a wonderfully whimsical piece called On the Immortality of a Crab. Colorado-based, Matt strives to create music that meets impresario Serge Diaghilev’s famous challenge to the legendary multi-faceted artist Jean Cocteau: “astonish me!” – through linking the timbral imagination and playfulness of György Ligeti, the shocking and humorous poly-stylism of Alfred Schnittke, and the relentless rhythmic energy of Igor Stravinsky. A Doctoral graduate of the University of Michigan, he has collaborated with the Minnesota Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, PRISM Quartet, Milwaukee and Albany Symphonies, Eastman Wind Ensemble, and many others. His music has been honored with the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers award, and a BMI Student Composer Award. While here, Matt will be a Co-Leader of this year's Hoff-Barthelson Music School's Compose Yourself workshop next week. We're so delighted to have Matt back, and help us welcome spring here at Copland House!