Mr. Auerbach-Brown received his BM in Composition from Ithaca College where his major teachers were Dana Wilson and Gregory Woodward. He went on to complete his MM in Composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with Donald Erb. Mr. Auerbach-Brown has also studied conducting with Steven Smith, former associate conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra.

Mr. Auerbach-Brown received his first composition award in 1989 when he won the New York State Federation of Music Clubs’ Composition Competition with his first piece, a two-movement work for french horn and piano. In 1996 he was awarded an ASCAP Young Composers’ Award for his Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, and later that year he attended June in Buffalo, an intensive one-week seminar for composers and performers of contemporary music. The Trio also received its New York premiere in September of 1999 at Carnegie Hall (in Weill Recital Hall) as part of the “Vector 5” contemporary music series; in addition, Mr. Auerbach-Brown received a grant from Meet the Composer for his participation in this concert. In 1998 Mr. Auerbach-Brown was the recipient of a Charles Ives Scholarship given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters to “composition students of great promise.”

Mr. Auerbach-Brown was a co-founder and conductor for “Composers in the Shape of a Pear,” a Cleveland-based contemporary music group whose mission was to expose new music to audiences outside of traditional academic environments. The “Pear” presented concerts several times a year at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and other local venues included the Beck Center for Performing Arts and the Cleveland Music School Settlement. In March of 1999, the Pear presented the inaugural concert of the Aki New Music Festival (sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Art) at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. The Pear has also collaborated with such local notables as the Cavani String Quartet, who gave the world premiere of Mr. Auerbach-Brown’s String Quartet at Weill Recital Hall in December of 1997.

In the Cleveland area, Mr. Auerbach-Brown is active as an educator, teaching music theory and composition at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, as well as teaching classes in the Liberal Arts department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. His classes at CIA focus on the connections between contemporary music and sound art with the visual arts. He also performs as a sound artist, using a wide variety of everyday materials to compose and improvise sound pieces in a variety of settings. He taught in the Preparatory Department of the Cleveland Institute of Music for five years, and in addition he taught counterpoint and music appreciation classes at Cleveland State University. He also worked with the Cleveland Clinic in a community outreach program, collaborating with young students in the composition of original songs and plays on health-related topics.

Most recently, Mr. Auerbach-Brown was commissioned by the Cleveland Institute of Art to compose a work for their commencement ceremony in May 2005. Other recent projects include the commission a work for marching band which was performed at “Parade the Circle” in Cleveland in June 2006. Mr. Auerbach-Brown is also a member of the Cleveland Composers’ Guild and the American Composers’ Alliance. His works have been performed regularly on ACA’s yearly Festival of American Music, with a premiere of several works for solo piano scheduled on ACA's festival in June 2007. He is also contributing editor to the New Music Connoisseur.