ALLAN BEVAN, CANADIAN COMPOSER
Biography
Canadian composer Allan Bevan’s choral compositions have been awarded many significant prizes in Canadian, American, and European composition competitions. He is the winner of the 2002 Ruth Watson Henderson Award for his motet Peace, and he is a three-time recipient of first prize awards in the Association of Canadian Choral Conductor’s Composition Competitions for his music for treble voices and piano (2000, 2002, and 2004.) His To Morning, a composition for string orchestra was awarded the Member’s Prize in the 2006 Mozart-250 competition sponsored by Chamber Orchestra Kremlin of Moscow. Dr. Bevan’s Passion Oratorio Nou Goth Sonne Under Wode was selected as the “Outstanding Choral Work” by The Association of Canadian Choral Conductors at their 2008 convention and was featured at Carnegie Hall in 2016. Concerto Della Donna’s CD Parlez-Moi, a 2011 release of his choral works for treble voices was named the “Outstanding Choral Recording” at Podium 2012 in Ottawa.
Allan Bevan has been commissioned by many of Canada’s finest choirs including outstanding ensembles such as Chorus Niagara, Pro Coro Canada, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and the Richard Eaton Singers as well as by the international touring ensemble Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc, known for their soundtrack for the film Les Choristes. His works have been performed, recorded, and broadcast across North America and in Europe, and Asia, and he has over fifty published compositions and arrangements to his credit. He has been described as “an extremely talented composer of ravishing sacred choral music” by The American Organist and as a “composer [who] obviously understands and is able to write for the voice in an uncanny fashion” by The Choral Room. Allan Bevan is a graduate of the University of Windsor School of Music and he holds graduate degrees in music from the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary. Currently, Dr. Bevan resides in St. Albert, Alberta and is music director at Robertson-Wesley United Church in Edmonton, Alberta. |
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