Pianist Lydia Brown has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the world. Second Prize Winner of the 1996 New Orleans International Piano Competition, she has appeared with such orchestras as the New Orleans Symphony, the Toledo Symphony and the Targu-Mures Philharmonic of Rumania. A Presidential Scholar in the Arts, she has performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Phillips Gallery, 92nd St. Y, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Alice Tully Hall and the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. Miss Brown and mezzo-soprano Brenda Patterson were one of ten duos chosen worldwide to participate in the 1998 Cleveland Art Song Festival. Miss Brown has completed critically-acclaimed concert tours with soprano N'kenge Simpson-Hoffmann and baritone Robert Gardner, winner of the 2000 Pro Musicis Foundation Award. Summer Festivals include the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Prague Mozart Academy and the Aspen Music Festival where she held the Vocal Chamber Music Fellowship. She recently returned from the Academie-Villecroze in Provence where she studied with Elly Ameling and Rudolf Jansen. Miss Brown holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Yale University School of Music. Her primary teachers are Olga Radosavljevich, Nelita True and Peter Frankl. She is currently a Doctoral of Musical Arts candidate in Accompanying under the direction of Margo Garrett.