About

Marguerite Brown is a composer/performer who explores new mediums, forms, and performance practices, with an emphasis on unconventional approaches to tuning and temperament. In her compositions, algorithms often serve as frameworks for indeterminate elements to unfold, inviting interpretive freedom within a shared artistic vision.

Her work has been performed at KM28 (Berlin), the Composers Conference, Underscore Festival, Espacios Sonoros Electroacoustic Festival (Argentina), ClarinetFest, La Chapelle Theater (Canada), Center for New Music, REDCAT Theater, Indexical, Bread & Salt Gallery,Wayward Music Series, among others.

Her work has been recognized through commissions and awards. Marguerite received the 2024 LamnthLab Commission to compose a new work for violin and cimbalom, which the duo Lamnth will perform during its 2026/27 season. She received first place in the 6th International Microtonal Guitar Competition (composition category) for Solo (Daisy), which she performed on a guitar refretted in an original just intonation tuning system. In 2022, she was awarded the Mivos/Kanter String Quartet Prize for her just intonation string quartet chroai: tetrachords, which Mivos performed frequently during its 2022/23 season. She currently performs a solo set for tabletop electric guitar and live electronics while completing a PhD in music composition at the University of California, San Diego.