Alan Bullard

Professional

Composer/Lyricist:	Composer
Genre:	Concert
Email:	alan@alanbullard.co.uk
Website:	www.alanbullard.co.uk

Biography

Alan Bullard’s music is widely performed in Great Britain and many other countries, broadcast on television and radio, and appears on a number of CDs. The variety of commissions that he has undertaken - including music for a number of professional soloists and ensembles, many amateur choral societies and children’s choirs, wind band and recorder festivals, a professional chamber choir, music for examination syllabuses and educational albums, and for a television programme about the Suffolk landscape - are some indication of the wide appeal of the music of this versatile composer to many different types of musicians and audiences.

Alan Bullard was born in London in 1947 and studied with Herbert Howells at the RCM and Arnold Whittall at Nottingham University. For 30 years he combined composition with a teaching post as Head of Composition at Colchester Institute: now freelance, he devotes most of his time to composition and is also an examiner for the Associated Board.

Recent instrumental commissions range from the virtuosic A minor deconstruction for violin, clarinet and piano (Coll’Arte Trio, Birmingham 1998), Cyclic Harmony (British Clarinet Ensemble, conductor Charles Hine, Krakow, Poland, 1998), Winter Variations for cello and piano (Jamie Walton and Daniel Grimwood, Tunbridge Wells 1998), and Large White Rock (Composers’ Ensemble, 2004) to pieces for young musicians such as Sounds through the day for recorders and percussion (Colchester Youth Arts Partnership, 2001), Harwich Hornpipe for symphony orchestra (Essex Youth Orchestra, 2004), Colne Valley Variations (Colne Valley Youth Orchestra, 2006) and a number of collections of pieces for beginners and intermediate players published by Oxford University Press, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Chester Music, and Spartan Press.

Recent choral commissions include Canticle of Freedom (Colchester Choral Society, 2000), This is our World (Feltham Choral Society, 2000), Anniversary Song (Solihull Choral Society, 2000), A Bunyan Garland (Dame Alice Harpur School Choirs, Bedford, 2001), A year in a Day (Reading Phoenix Choir, 2001), A Summer Garland (Waltham Singers, 2002), Mr Lear (Sawtry Chorale, South Chiltern Choral Society, and the Kemsing Singers, 2002), A New Vision (United Reformed Church Eastern Synod and Musicians’ Guild, 2003), Welcome May (Stockport Youth Choir and the Maia Singers, 2005), Byron at Newstead (Newstead Singers 2006) and many carols and anthems for Oxford University Press.

Alan Bullard’s choral music is also represented by Choral Connections, 28 Wright’s Lane, Great Missenden, Bucks HP16 0LH

Telephone 01494 866389
Website http://www.choralconnections.com
Email val@choralconnections.com

 

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