- Alan Fletcher (composer)
Alan Fletcher (born 1956) is President and CEO of the
Aspen Music Festival and School and both an accomplished music administrator and respected composer. He came to Aspen in March 2006 from the positions of Head of the School of Music and Professor of Music atCarnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he had been since 2001, and before that from leadership and faculty positions including Provost and Senior Vice President at theNew England Conservatory , where he was engaged for 16 years. He holds doctorate and masters degrees fromThe Juilliard School and a bachelors degree fromPrinceton University , and has studied with distinguished composers such asRoger Sessions ,Milton Babbitt ,Edward T. Cone , andPaul Lansky .He has won numerous composing awards and commissions, including recent commissions for the
Pittsburgh Symphony and theNational Gallery of Art . He lectures nationally and internationally on music and music administration, and has written Op/Ed pieces for newspapers such as the "Wall Street Journal", "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette", and "Baltimore Sun". In addition, he has sat on some of the field’s most prestigious committees such asThe Gilmore Prize Artistic Board and Jury, on which he served with former AMFS artistic administratorAra Guzelimian .
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