Allen Brings
"I compose music that I myself would like to hear ... "
Allen Brings composes for orchestra, band, chorus, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, harpsichord, guitar, and voice. His works have been performed throughout the United States and Europe and recorded on Capstone, Centaur, Grenadilla, Contemporary Recording Studios, North/South Consonance, Arizona University Recordings, and Vienna Modern Masters labels.
Pianist as well as a composer, he has performed worldwide and recorded for Centaur Records, Orion Master Recordings, and Composers Recordings, Inc. He was a Naumburg Fellow at Princeton University, and he has received awards from ASACP and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. He is co-author of A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony and has contributed articles to College Music Symposium, ComposerUSA, New Oxford Review, Contemporary Music Newsletter, and Adoremus Bulletin.
Allen Brings is Professor Emeritus of Music at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College of the City University of New York, where he was co-ordinator of the theory and ear training program, and a director of the Weston Music Center and School of the Performing Arts in Weston, Connecticut. He currently lives and works near New York City.
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