Jordan Brown is a versatile musician, conductor, and educator, at home in the realms of orchestral music, early music, contemporary music, and opera. He is Music Director and Conductor of the New Sussex Symphony in New Jersey.

Brown has conducted opera and orchestras in the USA in Europe, making significant debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Wiener Kammeroper in Vienna, Austria, and the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark.  Of his performance with the National Symphony Orchestra, Tim Page of the Washington Post wrote "Brown conducted with vigor and authority. The orchestra played brilliantly for him, and the afternoon ended with a warm ovation". 

As Orchestra Director at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan, Brown has performed with the Dalton Orchestra at Lincoln Center and has commissioned new music for orchestra from composers including Rome Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship winner Eric Nathan, Paola Prestini, Jessie Montgomery, Gregory Spears and Thomas Reeves.  He has also served as a guest conductor for honors student ensembles in New York and Florida.

Brown formerly served as Assistant Conductor at Cincinnati Opera where he assisted on productions of Salome, Don Giovanni, Aida, Pelléas et Mélisande, Faust, The Turn of the Screw, and La Bohème and collaborated with conductors Edoardo Mueller, Stéphane Denève, Stefan Lano, and Emmanuel Joel.  He has also served as Assistant Conductor of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, conductor of the Big Bend Community Orchestra, and Orchestra Director at The State College of Florida, Sarasota-Manatee, and is in demand as a clinician, conducting teacher, and lecturer.

Brown studied conducting at the Yale School of Music under Lawrence Leighton Smith, where he held the Charles Ives Scholarship and the Dean’s Prize. With Yale’s contemporary music ensemble New Music New Haven, he led the east coast premiere of Augusta Read Thomas’ “In My Sky At Twilight” under the composer’s supervision, and also collaborated with composers Tristan Murail and Pulitzer Prize winner Aaron Jay Kernis. He also studied cello and conducting at Florida State University College of Music, where he held a graduate teaching assistantship in conducting as a student of Phillip Spurgeon. 

Brown pursued conducting studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum Internationale Sommerakademie, Domaine Forget Academy, and the National Conducting Institute with Leonard Slatkin, under the auspices of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has also participated in conducting masterclasses with Kenneth Kiesler, Michael Tilson-Thomas and the New World Symphony,  Peter Oundjian, Gustav Meier, and Otto-Werner Müller. As a finalist for the American Symphony Orchestra League's conductor fellowship in 2005, he conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Houston Symphony Orchestra. 

Also a cellist and viola da gamba player, Brown has appeared at the Amherst Early Music Festival, in solo and chamber music recitals, and with New York’s period instrument ensemble Dorian Baroque. 

Brown grew up in Sarasota, Florida where he began music studies at Sarasota High School and also played with Florida West Coast Symphony Youth Orchestras. His hobbies include photography, cooking, and travel. He lives in Manhattan.