Alan Belkin

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Alan Belkin (born July 5, 1951) is a Canadian composer, [1] organist, pianist as well as a pedagogue.

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Early life

Alan Belkin was born in Montreal. He began piano studies with Philip Cohen, then he studied organ with Dom André Laberge and with Bernard Lagacé. He studied composition with Marvin Duchow and in 1983, he got his doctorate from the Juilliard School in New York under the tutelage of American composers David Diamond and Elliott Carter.

Career

Since 1984, Belkin has taught theory and composition at University of Montreal. [2] He is acknowledged by Canadian Music Centre as an associate composer. He is now retired, and teaches online.

Alan Belkin maintains an English, French, German and Spanish web site which includes free texts on harmony, orchestration, counterpoint, musical form and other musical subjects. Alan Belkin's works have been played in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the United States.

Belkin's YouTube channel has more than 33,000 subscribers and contains both his music and much pedagogical material. [3]

Works

Discography

Halogènes – excerpt of Night Labyrinth (1987): Adagio I (UMMUS UMM-101, 1990)

Honours

Prix d'excellence en enseignement, catégorie professeur agrégé [4] University of Montreal (1994)

Publications

Notes

  1. Musicworks. Vol. 67–72. Music Gallery. 1997. p. 58.
  2. Belkin, Alan entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
  3. "Alan Belkin - YouTube". YouTube .
  4. "" Université de Montréal - Faculté de Musique - Corps enseignant "". Archived from the original on 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2011-01-25.

http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/personnel/belkin_a.html

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