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✺ BIOGRAPHY ✺ San Francisco-based composer, guitarist, and electric bassist Ryan Brown spent his formative years playing rock and jazz guitar in various bands before beginning formal musical studies at age seventeen. He did his undergraduate work in composition at California State University, Long Beach, graduating in 2002, and earned his master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2005; he is currently completing his Ph.D. at Princeton University. Brown’s music has been performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic, pianist Lisa Moore, California E.A.R. Unit, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Paul Dresher Ensemble, Carlsbad Festival, Gaudeamus Festival (Amsterdam), MATA Festival and other notable groups, artists and presenters; he has also been featured on NPR’s Forum with Michael Krasney and Richard Friedman’s Music from Other Minds. Brown has received an Emerging Composer Award from the Gerbode and Hewlett Foundations and a Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP, and has been in residence with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis. In 2006 Brown co-founded San Francisco’s annual Switchboard Music Festival, an eight-hour music marathon bringing together composers and performers who are challenging traditional genre lines (www.switchboardmusic.com). “Great, satisfyingly cerebral stuff with a funky and appealing technique to back it up.” -DC Theatre Scene “Pushes the ensemble sound beyond the Western classical realm.” -Santa Barbara News-Press “This is modern composed music at its best; nimble, expressive, ear-turning and strange in an accessible way, highly virtuosic but never pretentious...It’s fun. It’s beautiful.” -Washington City Paper “The genuine enthusiasm the group evoked was infectious, and plenty of audience members bopped their heads along with the music.” -San Francisco Classical Voice http://www.switchboardmusic.comshapeimage_4_link_0