Bio

Conor Abbott Brown is a clarinetist, composer, synth programmer, orchestrator, and producer. His eclectic output defies genre and reflects a lifelong commitment to diverse musical traditions.

As a clarinetist, Conor premieres compositions grounded in the traditions of Western classical music; as a multi-instrumentalist in Egemen Kesikli’s project Turkish Massage Owl, he performs folk and pop music with roots in West Asia and the Balkans; as a performer on Serge Modular synthesizer with the electro-acoustic collective Pink Mage, he explores improvised realms of noise and dark ambient music. He has performed in several orchestras, including with Jónsi and Alex and the Wordless Music Orchestra for the project Riceboy Sleeps and as guest principal clarinetist with the American Symphony Orchestra.

Conor’s compositions, described as “creatively wrought” and “zesty” by The New York Times and noted for their “sharp humor” by The Aspen Times, have been performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, the Aspen Festival Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and others.

As an orchestrator, Conor collaborated with Colin Stetson to create the live performance version of the Hereditary film score, which premiered in 2024 with the London Contemporary Orchestra at Barbican Hall in London. He led a team of orchestrators to create the scores for Ellie Goulding’s 2023-2024 orchestral tour. Conor has also worked on orchestration and arranging projects for Mark Crawford, Eluvium, Elephant Revival, Olga Bell, Dirty Projectors, SoCalled, SHEL, and Paper Bird.

Conor has credits as a producer and composer of film music, including arranger and choral producer for Uncut Gems, music co-producer for the Emmy-nominated docudrama The Social Dilemma, and composer for Unconformity.

Conor holds degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder (DMA and MM in Music Composition), Bard College (BA in Dance), and the Bard College Conservatory of Music (BM in Music Composition).

Conor is a member of the Code Switch Composers Collective.