Allan Crossman

has written for many soloists and ensembles, among them guitarist Michael Laucke, Quatuor Morency, and pianist Max Lifchitz. The North/South Consonance (NYC) recording of Millennium Overture Dance received a GRAMMY nomination in 2003, and Music for Human Choir (SATB) shared Top Honors at the Waging Peace through Singing Festival. Pianist Nanette Solomon has performed Gypsy Ballads at the International Lorca Conference in Spain; North/South has just recorded his FLYER (cello and string orchestra), commemorating the centenary of powered flight; a recent commission is the piano trio Icarus, for the New Pacific Trio (San Francisco area). His work has been supported by the American Composers Forum, Canada Council for the Arts, Meet the Composer (SF/NY), and others.

He has composed, arranged, and directed music for theater, including The Threepenny Opera, The Comedy of Errors, and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Stoppard/Previn). The most recent of his theatre scores, The Log of the Skipper’s Wife, directed and with libretto by Joann Green Breuer, was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford and the Kennedy Center, with music drawn from Irish/English shanties and dances. His music is the soundtrack for the award-winning animated short, X man, by Christopher Hinton (National Film Board of Canada).

Teaching

Associate Professor of Music, Emeritus, Concordia University, Montreal, Que.
1976-2001.
Faculty, San Francisco Conservatory, San Francisco, CA 2002-present
Adjunct Professor of Music, Pacific Conservatory, Stockton, CA. 2001
Composition Faculty, John Adams Young Composers Program, Crowden Music
Center, Berkeley, CA
Head of Composition Studies, School of Contemporary Music, Boston 1974-75
Assistant Professor of Music, Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. 1969-72
Composition instructor, School of the Arts, San Francisco 1989-90.

Education

B.A., M.A. (Honors in Music Theory and Composition), University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia 1964, 1966; studies with George Rochberg, George Crumb,
Hugo Weisgall.