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Andrew Brown is the chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the leading professional choral arts organization in the country and a resident company of Walt Disney Concert Hall. As COO, he leads the Master Chorale’s artistic production, marketing, and education departments, and guides the organization’s artistic and strategic planning. He also leads the management team in union collective bargaining negotiations and manages guest artist contracting. During his tenure, the Master Chorale has transitioned to a fully-professional ensemble and experienced unprecedented growth in expanding the Master Chorale’s artistic footprint both inside and beyond Walt Disney Concert Hall.
He also produces the Master Chorale’s media and recording projects, having served as executive producer on several recordings including Festival of Carols, the ensemble’s first self-produced album, and an album of David Lang's national anthems and the little match girl passion. Most recently, he facilitated the Master Chorale’s appearance as the featured chorus on John Williams’ score of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
He is currently producing two projects to expand the Master Chorale’s presence well beyond Walt Disney Concert Hall. The first is Big Sing California, a live-streamed, sing-along concert event, featuring the Master Chorale and hosted by artistic director Grant Gershon and artist-in-residence Eric Whitacre. The performance will be broadcast from Walt Disney Concert Hall on July 21, 2018, to hub locations across California, and live-streamed on the internet for anyone around the country to sing along. The second is the Master Chorale’s first independent international tour of Lagrime di San Pietro (The Tears of St. Peter). This production of 21 a cappella singers performing Orlando di Lasso’s Renaissance masterpiece was staged by acclaimed director Peter Sellars and will be presented around the world beginning September 2018.
As a professional singer, Andrew has sung with the LA Master Chorale and Los Angeles Chamber Singers, among other ensembles, and for such world-class conductors as Grant Gershon, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, Zubin Mehta, and Michael Tilson Thomas. He can be heard on numerous film scores and had a featured on-camera singing appearance in an episode of the CBS series, How I Met Your Mother.
He holds an M.A. in arts management and M.B.A. from the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, and a bachelor’s degree in music education from Ball State University.
