Piano Professor

James Brawn is an international concert pianist, recording artist and pedagogue. Currently based in Shanghai, Mr. Brawn is on the piano faculty at the FaceArt Institute of Music. Previously, he held positions in Oxford, Melbourne and Cambridge. His students have gained entry to the most respected music schools and have performed in New York’s Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Salzburg’s Mozarteum and Vienna’s Musikverein.

Born in England in 1971, Mr. Brawn studied piano in New Zealand, Australia, USA and the UK. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1992, having studied with Christopher Elton and Frank Wibaut. He can trace his teachers’ lineages back to Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Clara Schumann.

Recording for MSR Classics (USA) since 2012, Mr. Brawn has released ten albums in his Beethoven Sonata cycle and Recital series (www.msrcd.com). He records at Potton Hall in Suffolk with the esteemed production team of Jeremy Hayes and Ben Connellan.

From 2016, Beethoven concerto (1,3,4,5) appearances have been with the English Symphony Orchestra, Surrey Mozart Players and Capriol Chamber Orchestra. Radio broadcasts have included his Shanghai Concert Hall debut, RTHK Hong Kong, ABC Classic FM and NPR stations across the USA. On 16 December 2020, Mr. Brawn performed for the 250th Beethoven Birthday Concert, broadcast live around the world for Shanghai’s SMG Radio and Steinway Spirio.

During 2015, Mr. Brawn became a Steinway Artist. He is a Life Member of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe and has given masterclasses for international schools, music conservatories and universities worldwide.

詹姆斯·布朗是一位國際知名的鋼琴演奏家、錄音藝術家和教育家。布朗先生目前定居上海，並任教於上海藝華音樂學院鋼琴系。此前，他曾在牛津、墨爾本和劍橋任教。他的學生考入了許多世界頂尖音樂學院，並在紐約卡內基音樂廳威爾獨奏廳、薩爾斯堡莫札特音樂廳和維也納金色大廳等著名音樂殿堂演出。

布朗先生1971年出生於英國，先後在新西蘭、澳洲、美國和英國學習鋼琴。他於1992年畢業於英國皇家音樂學院，師從克里斯多福·艾爾頓和法蘭克·維博。他的老師們傳承自貝多芬、蕭邦、李斯特和克拉拉·舒曼等大師。

自2012年起，布朗先生便與美國MSR Classics唱片公司簽約，發行了十張貝多芬奏鳴曲全集及獨奏系列專輯（www.msrcd.com）。他與著名製作團隊傑里米·海耶斯和本·康奈蘭在薩福克郡的波頓音樂廳合作錄製唱片。

自2016年起，他與英國交響樂團、薩里莫札特樂團和卡普里奧爾室內樂團合作演奏貝多芬第一、三、四、五鋼琴協奏曲。他的演出曾多次透過廣播播出，包括上海音樂廳首演、香港電台、ABC古典音樂電台以及美國各地的NPR電台。 2020年12月16日，布朗先生在貝多芬誕辰250週年音樂會上演出，由上海SMG廣播電台和史坦威Spirio共同進行全球直播。

2015年，布朗先生成為史坦威藝術家。他是歐洲貝多芬鋼琴協會的終身會員，曾為世界各地的國際學校、音樂學院和大學舉辦大師班。