Brian Dozier Brown (b. 1997) is a trained composer, experimental sound artist, and transmedia technologist based in Palo Alto, CA. His impetus as an artist is to create works that remind us of our humanity to forge cathartic pathways toward compassion and empathy. His concert works have been performed by Polymorphia, Unheard-of Ensemble, Orkest de Ereprijs, and Robert Fleitz.

Brown was born in Lakeland, Florida where his first choral compositions were performed at the Lois Cowles Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. After graduating, he traveled to Tallahassee to pursue a BM in Music Composition as a Presser Scholar at Florida State University where he studied with Stephan Montague, Mark Wingate, Clifton Callendar, and Liliya Ugay. His early work often explored organic processes of gradual transformation. In his Piano Fantasy No. 1, he permutes dense, brooding chord clusters by slowly changing individual pitches to shapeshift the work’s sonic atmosphere. As an alumnus of the National YoungArts Foundation, he is an eager interdisciplinary collaborator having worked with film, dance, and visual art. He demonstrates his kaleidoscopic style in film scores and sound sculptures, crafting unnerving synth atmospheres for psychological thrillers like Shaken and weaving lo-fi bedroom-studio aesthetics with Britell-esque stylings in coming-of-age indie drama Black and White Make Grey. His collaborative work has been screened at theaters and festivals across the nation. After leaving the South, Brown moved to Long Island, NY where he worked as a Teaching Assistant and Turner Fellow while completing his Masters in Music Composition at SUNY Stony Brook University. He studied with Matthew Barnson, Nirmali Fenn, Daniel Weymouth, Perry Goldstein, Margaret Schedel, and Stephanie Dinkins during his time at Stony Brook, focusing specifically on computer music and programming as he worked to become a fluent multidisciplinary art technologist. Brown currently studies with Jarosław Kapuściński and Paul DeMarinis at Stanford University.