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Biography
Current Positions
- Alarm Will Sound – Artistic Director and Co-founder
- Crash Ensemble (Dublin) – Principal Conductor
- Northwestern Contemporary Music Ensemble – Co-Director
Recent Positions
- Brooklyn Philharmonic – Artistic Director
- Indiana University Jacobs School of Music – Visiting Faculty Conductor
- Eastman School of Music – Visiting Faculty Conductor
Current Activities
- Symphoniker Hamburg
Recent Activities
- Prototype Festival – production of 3 new operas
- MACE at Mannes CollegeAlabama Symphony Orchestra
- New World Symphony
- Los Angeles Philharmonic – Brooklyn Festival
- London Sinfonietta
- Orchestra of St. Luke’s
- Steve Reich Ensemble
- Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW
- Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
- The Silk Road Project
Endeavors
Co-founder of Alarm Will Sound, a versatile ensemble that performs a wide range of styles ranging from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced. The ensemble fosters close relationships with contemporary composer and has commissioned and premiered many pieces. Alarm Will Sound itself includes many composer-performers, which allows for an unusual degree of insight into the creation and performance of new work.
- Alarm Will Sound is the resident ensemble at the annual Mizzou International Composers Festival, held each July in Columbia, MO focusing on world premiere performances of music by emerging composers.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art – Alarm Will Sound (4-concert series)
- ASCAP Concert Music Award
- Best Concert of the Year 2008 citations by New York Magazine and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Best of 2009 lists for a/rhythmia CD on by WNYC radio, Washington Post, Boston Herald, and Time Out
- John Adams’ Son of Chamber Symphony world premiere
- Carnegie Hall workshop collaboration with Dawn Upshaw and Osvaldo Golijov
- 1969 - a multimedia performance piece - created and toured with Alarm Will Sound
Recordings
- Steve Reich Tehillim and The Desert Music (Cantaloupe Music)
- Steve Reich Radio Rewrite– Alarm Will Sound (Nonsuch Records)
- Steve Reich Daniel Variations – London Sinfonietta (Nonsuch Records)
- Donnacha Dennehy Grá agus Bás - Dawn Upshaw, Iarla Ó Lionáird and the Crash Ensemble (Nonsuch Records)
- Derek Bermel Canzonas Americanas– Alarm Will Sound (Cantaloupe Records)
- Alarm Will Sound a/rhythmia – Alarm Will Sound(Nonesuch Records)
- Alarm Will Sound Plays the Music of Aphex Twin (Cantaloupe Music)
- Silk Road Journeys - Yo-Yo Ma (Sony Classical)
Websites
- Alan Pierson: www.alanpierson.com
- Alarm Will Sound: www.alarmwillsound.com