About the Music Director
JORDAN BROWN, MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR
Jordan Brown was appointed Music Director of the New Sussex Symphony beginning with the 2018-2019 season.
Brown has conducted orchestras in the USA and Europe and has led performances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Wiener Kammeroper in Vienna, Austria, and the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denma
Jordan Brown was appointed Music Director of the New Sussex Symphony beginning with the 2018-2019 season.
Brown has conducted orchestras in the USA and Europe and has led performances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Wiener Kammeroper in Vienna, Austria, and the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark.
He has formerly held conducting positions with Cincinnati Opera, the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and The State College of Florida, Sarasota-Manatee.
He additionally serves as Orchestra Director at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan. Together they have performed at Lincoln Center and have led premieres of works by Jessie Montgomery, Eric Nathan, Paola Prestini, and Gregory Spears.
Brown studied conducting at the Yale School of Music under Lawrence Leighton Smith, where he held the Charles Ives Scholarship and the Dean’s Prize. He studied cello and conducting at Florida State University College of Music, the Salzburg Mozarteum, Domaine Forget Academy, and was twice a participant in the National Conducting Institute with Leonard Slatkin at the Kennedy Center, in partnership with the League of American Orchestras.
He has participated in conducting masterclasses with Kenneth Kiesler and the University of Michigan Symphony, Michael Tilson-Thomas and the New World Symphony, Peter Oundjian and the Yale Philharmonia, Gustav Meier at the Peabody Conservatory, and Otto-Werner Müller at Le Domaine Forget, Canada.
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