Michael Brand (composer)

Michael Brand (born 1952) is an English orchestral conductor and composer, also known for his work with members of Van der Graaf Generator. He previously worked as a radio producer for the BBC. Early life Brand was born in England in 1952, the son of the composer Geoffrey Brand. He was educated at Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, and read music at University College, Oxford, graduating in 1974. After a stint as a freelance conductor and arranger, Brand worked as a producer for BBC Radio from 1979. Brian Matthew, and Ray Moore. He left the BBC in 1982 to devote himself fully to his music. which he runs with his father, Geoffrey. His Chosen Gems for Winds featured on a Naxos CD of music primarily by Percy Grainger, conducted by Bjarte Engeset. Together with his wife Jane Bramwell he is a founder and director of the non-profit Oxford Music Theatre. He composed the musicals “King & Country” ) and “CLD: The Real Lewis Carroll” (2016; in which Lewis Carroll meets his alter ego Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), and “Guilty of Love” (2017; about Alan Turing), each with lyrics by Bramwell. The reviewer Tim Bano, writing in The Stage, said of “CLD”: “Brand’s music has a contemporary hymnal quality, the