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