James Francis Brown

Who is James Francis Brown?

James Francis Brown is a British composer. He studied composition with the Viennese émigré Hans Heimler and then at the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Francis Brown’s significant chamber works include sonatas for Piano, for Viola, the String Trio and a Piano Quartet. Larger concert works include the Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, the Sinfonietta, commissioned by Faber Music and premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2002 by the London Chamber Orchestra, Trio Concertante for string trio and orchestra and the Clarinet Concerto. The Shakespeare-inspired ‘Prospero’s Isle’, is a work for cello and piano that was subsequently expanded and orchestrated to form a symphonic tone poem, arranged for performance in St Petersburg in 2007.

As an arranger he reconstructed and orchestrated sketches for Wagner's projected opera 'Männerlist größer als Frauenlist' for the Royal Opera House in 2007 and arranged Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll for the 2008 City of London Festival. His film scores include the acclaimed short film “The Clap”.