Coloradoan cellist Andrew Brown has served as principal cellist of The Longmont Symphony, Mahler Festival, Aspen Music Festival’s Opera, and collaborated with The Playground Ensemble and Takács Quartet’s Geraldine Walther.  Dr. Brown is the 1st prize winner of the 2016 Ekstrand Competition at CU Boulder and has previously been awarded 1st 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.  In addition to his music degrees from The University of Denver, The Cleveland Institute of Music (where he earned a double-master’s degree in Cello Performance and Cello Suzuki Pedagogy), and The University of Colorado, Boulder, Dr. Brown holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration-Finance degree from The University of Iowa.  

He has acted as viticulture-manager for an organically grown nursery of Petite Sirah, enjoys hiking, mushroom foraging, baking, cooking, and brewing beer, kombucha, and cider.  As a hobby, he has converted waste vegetable oil from restaurants into biodiesel and has also acted as a lobbyist in Washington D.C. on behalf of the biodiesel community.  He is currently Boulder Chamber Orchestra's assistant principal cellist.