Shelter Island Friends of Music will present a free concert by Michael Stephen Brown, an award-winning pianist and composer, on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Brown is a first-prize winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. He has given solo recitals at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Louvre, and the Beethoven House in Bonn, Germany, and has performed with such leading orchestras as the Seattle Symphony and Poland’s NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra.
His program will include works by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, von Weber, Fauré, and Beethoven, with original compositions as well. A reception will follow the performance.
