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Description: Composer, Playright, Lyricist, Pianist, USA
Instruments: Piano
Music Styles: Musicals, Popular
Location: Australia
Date Born: 20th June 1970
Location Born: Ossining, New York, United States of America
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Jason Robert Brown
Jason Robert Brown (born June 20, 1970) is an American musical theatre composer, lyricist, and playwright. Brown’s music sensibility fuses pop-rock stylings with theatrical lyrics. An accomplished pianist, Brown has often served as music director, conductor, orchestrator, and pianist for his own productions. He has won Tony Awards for his work on Parade and The Bridges of Madison County.
An American musical theater composer, lyricist, and playwright. Brown’s music sensibility fuses pop-rock stylings with theatrical lyrics.
An accomplished pianist, Brown has often served as music director, conductor, orchestrator, and pianist for his own productions.
During summer, he attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in Hancock, New York. He said Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Sunday in the Park with George were two of his biggest influences, and had it not been for them, he would have joined a rock band and tried to be Billy Joel.
When Brown was 23, a friend and him were invited to see a Stephen Sondheim show by Sondheim himself. Brown’s friend, who he refers to only as “Franz Liszt”, wrote Sondheim and that is how they both got the tickets.
He began his career in New York City as an arranger, conductor, and pianist, working on shows such as William Finn’s A New Brain, and playing at several nightclubs and piano bars in the city. Songs for a New World marked the first major New York production of Brown’s songs.
Brown contributed several songs to the Broadway flop Urban Cowboy, and was nominated, with 30 other composers, for the 2003 Tony Award for best Musical Score, losing out to Hairspray.
One of his songs, entitled “Another Life”, is featured on Kelli O’Hara’s 2011 album Always.