Artist-composer and writer, Nicholas Brown (UK, 1974) makes musical works/works about music using various forms of expression, including theatre/performance art, video, installation, creative writing and book-making. Recent work includes, AS I HAVE NOW MEMOYRE (2008), a performance piece/installation on the relationship between singing and memory; THE SOUL FINDS REST IN UNITY (2007) a domestic installation featuring private violin performances; FIVE ACTIONS FOR A VIOLINIST (2007) a frame-by-frame reconstruction of a musical performance on video; and AN AUDIENCE WITH THE TREES (2005), an installation for a woodland environment. He has also written an extensive body of concert and film music that has featured in international festivals, including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the BBC Promenade Concerts, Haarlem Koorbiënnale (NL), Oxford Contemporary Music and the UK-with-NY festival of British culture in New York. He is frequently active as a performer and has conducted his music at venues such as Lincoln Center (New York), The National Gallery (Washington, D.C.) & London's Barbican Centre; performed as a pianist at Wigmore Hall and as performance artist at venues including Kings Place and Riverside Studios in London. As a writer, he has published articles on the philosophy of music, particularly theories of music & embodiment, and given talks and lectures on the value of artistic expression in the context of daily life.

Nicholas Brown was educated at Oxford University (1993-6) and in New York (1996-1999), where he studied with American composer, Ned Rorem. He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 2006. Having held posts at Oxford University and Trinity College of Music (London), he currently holds a lectureship at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.