Andrea Lauren Brown

Andrea Lauren Brown (* 1973 in Wilmington (Delaware) ) is an American singer ( soprano ) and second prize winner of the ARD music competition 2003.

Life

Andrea Lauren Brown studied Music Performance and Education at West Chester University in Pennsylvania (USA), where she obtained a Bachelor of Music degree with summa cum laude. She received her master's degree in vocal pedagogy and solo singing from Westminster Choir College, Princeton / New Jersey. In 2003 she won the second prize of the ARD music competition in the singing category.

She performed in the USA and Europe. She has made guest appearances at the Komische Oper Berlin , the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , the Theater an der Wien , the Wiener Konzerthaus , as well as at numerous festivals including the Schwetzingen Festival , the Villa Ludwigshöhe , the Haydn Festival and the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival or the Kirchheim Concert Winter . She worked with conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini , Frieder Bernius , Ádám Fischer , Pierre Cao , Christoph Hammer , Martin Haselböck , Thomas Hengelbrock , Johannes Kalitzke , Tõnu Kaljuste , Christoph Poppen and Stefan Vlader . Her repertoire ranges from early music to contemporary music. In the field of chamber music, she has already played with Thomas Demenga , Patricia Kopatchinskaja , Thomas Larcher , Robert Pobitschka , the pianists Helmut Deutsch , Fritz Schwinghammer and Norman Shetler . She regularly collaborates with early music ensembles such as Le Nuove Musiche , the Vienna Academy , the Ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen under Manfred Cordes , the Orlando-di-Lasso-Ensemble and the La Chapelle Rhénane .

Discography

Religious music

• Christoph Graupner : Epiphany cantatas: What God does is well done, he is my light, GWV 1114/43; Awake, you Heyden, GWV 1111/34; The waves in the sea are great, GWV 1115/35; What God does is well done, his will remains just, GWV 1114/30; God the Lord is sun and shield, GWV 1114/54. Andrea Lauren Brown (soprano), Kai Wessel (alto), Georg Poplutz (tenor), Dominik Wörner (bass), Kirchheimer BachConsort , Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch (lead). cpo, 2017.
• Michael Praetorius : Easter Mass. Weser-Renaissance Bremen under the direction of Manfred Cordes. cpo.
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : Magnificat . Kammerchor Stuttgart, Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under the direction of Frieder Bernius. SWR coproduction, Carus.
• Heinrich Schütz : Symphoniae Sacrae. La Chapelle Rhénane under the direction of Benoît Haller. K617.

song

• Robert Schumann : Myrtles . Andrea Lauren Brown (soprano), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone), Uta Hielscher (piano). Naxos

Opera

• Georg Friedrich Handel : Appollo e Dafne. HWV 122. "cantus firmus" under the direction of Andreas Reitze. cpo.
• Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg : The Ghost Island. Singspiel in 3 acts. Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Neue Hofkapelle Stuttgart under the direction of Frieder Bernius. SWR co-production, Carus.

Web links

• Works by Andrea Lauren Brown in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at the Kirchheim concert winter