MahlerFest Fellow Andrew Brown has served as the principal cellist of Aspen Music Festival’s Opera and the Longmont Symphony, and has collaborated with The Playground Ensemble and Takács Quartet’s Geraldine Walther. Dr. Brown is the first prize winner of the 2016 Ekstrand Competition at CU Boulder and has previously been awarded first place in the Lamont Chamber Competition and was Lamont’s Best Senior in Performance. As part of his doctoral dissertation, Dr. Brown published a recording of unaccompanied compositions for cello by American composers.