Lake Alan (1878)
Set to “Lake Alan,” the opening movement of Michael Stephen Brown’s Four Lakes for Children, this 16mm music video imagines Yaddo’s founding family at play on a winter day in 1878. Conceived at the residency where composer Brown and filmmaker Angeline Gragasin first met, the film hovers between document and fantasy, like a rediscovered home movie.
Michael Stephen Brown plays Debussy's Homage à Haydn live at Alice Tully Hall.
Oppens & Lowenthal Perform Twelve Blocks by Michael Stephen Brown (2026)
Michael Stephen Brown: Twelve Blocks for One Piano, Four Hands + Poetry Ursula Oppens & Jerome Lowenthal, pianists Poetry by Paul Verlaine, John Keats, and Andrew Marvell
Piano Concerto Recording Session (2025)
The East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) teams up with composer-pianist Michael Stephen Brown for a recording session of his Piano Concerto. Watch them bring the work to life—full recording coming in 2026!
Twelve Blocks Album Trailer (2025)
Michael Stephen Brown’s debut album as a composer of all-original works, has it all: tributes, emotional detours, and even a breakup etude he probably should’ve kept under lock and key. You’ll find lost loves, lifelong mentors, children who never grew up, an arrogant violist – because what’s an album without one? – and a legendary pianist couple who walk twelve blocks daily reciting poetry to each other.
Performers include Jerome Lowenthal, Ursula Oppens, Anne-Marie McDermott, Osmo Vänskä, Erin Keefe, Susanna Phillips, Paul Neubauer, and Brown himself.
The Lotos-Eaters (2024)
The World Premiere performance of Michael Stephen Brown's The Lotos-Eaters featuring Ian David Rosenbaum (percussion), Marya Martin (flute), Mihai Marica (cello), and Michael Stephen Brown (piano). Commissioned by and dedicated to the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival.
Mozart & Shostakovich: The Power of 10 (2024)
Promotional video for Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos (No. 10), performed by Michael Stephen Brown and Adam Golka with the Phoenix Symphony, conducted by Tito Muñoz, April 26 - 28, 2024.
The Library of Congress (2023)
Educational video in which Michael Stephen Brown discusses and demonstrates the role of the three piano pedals, Sustain, Sostenuto, and Soft.
Debussy: Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque (2022)
Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso & Delphine von Schauroth: Song Without Words (2021)
Recorded on Octavia, Brown's newly restored 19th century Steinway concert grand piano.
Octavia: The Unveiling of My Steinway (2021)
Octavia, a Steinway concert grand born in 1892, was found on Craigslist, rebuilt, and joined my family soon after. She was recently taken out of my apartment to be heard in recital for the very first time. Please enjoy her story.
Ravel: Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso (2021)
Recorded live at the Tippet Rise Arts Center.
Chopin: Impromptu in F-sharp Major, Op. 36 (2021)
Recorded on Octavia, Brown's newly restored 19th century Steinway concert grand piano.
Breakup Etude for the Right Hand Alone (2020)
Michael Stephen Brown plays his original work for right hand alone, dedicated to himself. Recorded on Octavia, Brown's newly restored 19th century Steinway concert grand piano.
Michael Stephen Brown and Orion Weiss play Arensky: Waltz for Two Pianos (2019)
Recorded live at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (2019).