Name Alan Swanson | Role Composer | |
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Alan Mauritz Swanson (born Chicago, Illinois 29 October 1941) is an American composer and academic who lives in the Netherlands.
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He took his BA (1963) and MA (1965) at Indiana University and his PhD at the University of Chicago (1973). In between he studied at Stockholm University. As an academic, he taught at Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois), Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah), and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), and came to specialize in the theatre and opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Trained as a singer, many of his early compositions are for voice, but recent work has tended to be varied in form: string quartets, a viola concerto, a partita for piano, and others. In 2006, he was honored for his academic and community work by being appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.
Partial works list
1988: Missa Aestiva . SSAATTBB
1992-93: Essay for String Quartet
1994: “Balulalow,” S, Org.
1993-2003: Second Essay for String Quartet
1995: “Il pleut dans mon cœur! – Voice, Pno
2006: Equale per quattro tromboni, “Academic Discussion in Groningen”
2008: Song-Set No. 1, High voice, Piano
2010: Song-Set No. 2: Fem sånger till texter av Arthur Landfors – Low voice, Piano
2011: Partita pour piano
2011: Words: Scena, Low vice, pno
2011: Alleluia: Laudate Dominum. SATB
2011/12: Algorithm. Percussion solo
2012: Riffs on “Herzlich Lieb’ hab ich dich, o Herr,” Organ
2013: Concerted Music for Viola and Strings. - Strings