Studying under the sponsorship of the Austrian-American Society Andrea Lauren Brown was a summer academy prize-winner at the Internationale Sommerakademie of the Universitaet-Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria in 2002. She won second place at the International Competition of the ARD 2003 in Munich, Germany, where she now lives. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, she studied piano and flute before turning to singing, studying with Joy Vandever and Laura Brooks Rice. Andrea Brown holds a Master of Music degree in Voice Pedagogy and Performance from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey and a Bachelor of Music degree from West Chester University, in Pennsylvania, where she graduated summa cum laude.

Andrea Brown recently made her debut in Salzburg, Austria singing "Norina" in Don Pasquale. She has sung in many of the most important theaters and festivals of Europe, performing both opera and concert repertoire in at least eighteen different countries. Her versatile work with renown conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Frieder Bernius, Adam Fischer, Martin Haselböck, Thomas Hengelbrock, Johannes Kalitzke, Tonu Kaljuste, Kay Johannsen, Christoph Poppen, Ola Rudner, Stefan Vlader and Ralf Weikert shows the special agility with which she sings music from the baroque through bel canto to modern. Her love of Chamber Music and Lied brought her together with Helmut Deutsch, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Thomas Larcher, Christoph Hammer and Norman Shetler. Extensive work in early music led her to collaborate often with period specialists, including members of the Freiburger Barockorchester, Le Nuove Musiche, the Kammerphilharmonie Karlsruhe, Münchener Kammerorchester, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Bremer Philharmoniker, Weser Renaissance, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Orlando di Lasso Ensemble, Peter Kooji and Sette Voce and La Chapelle Rhénane.

Since moving to Germany in 2003, Andrea Brown has sung a variety of baroque and early classical opera including King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, Acis and Galatea, Dido and Aeneas, Die äeolsharfe, La Calisto, Ariadne and Ulysses. Her concert repertoire includes J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Händel, Mozart's c moll Messe and Davide Penitente, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Ninth. Symphonie, Haydn's Il ritorno di Tobia, Die Schöpfung and Jahreszeiten, Mendelssohn's Paulus, Elias, and Psalm 42, Verdi's Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana together with Berio's Sequenza and Ligeti's Aventures et Nouvelles Aventures.

Having had over a dozen releases in the last 5 years, notable discography includes international prize winning CDs such as Thomas Larcher's Ixxu, Thomas Hengelbrock's Dixit Dominus of Händel and Symphonie Sacrae from Schütz. Andrea Brown can be seen on recent DVD release of the world premiere of I Hate Mozart by Bernhard Lang for which she was noted in Musical America for "showing a luscious, radiant soprano" for her delivery of the young star "Simona" at Theater an der Wien in Vienna. She has recorded numerous live radio recordings and is featured on the Vox Amadeus CDs: Exsultate, jubilate of Mozart and Baroque Masterpieces as well as in the role of "Belinda" in Dido and Aeneas and forthwith coming Judas Maccabaeus. Her newest recording of Schumann Lieder, together with baritone Thomas Bauer and pianist Uta Hielscher will be available on Naxos this fall.

2009 marks a return to the baroque, with recordings of Lasso, Carissimi, Schütz and Händel as well as the title role in the opera, Didone Abbandonata of Jommelli. Other engagements include Händel's Solomon in the Wiener Konzerthaus, Daphné and Apollo with the Cantus Firmus Ensemble, Haydn's The Seasons, Brahms' Requiem, solo recital with piano trio, Bach Cantatas with "The rare fruits council" under the direction of Manfredo Kraemer and Händel's Messiah with the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla unter Pierre Cao.