Allen Shawn
Composer News
b. 1948
Allen Shawn is a composer, pianist, educator, and author who lives in Vermont and teaches composition and music history at Bennington College. His previous books include Arnold Schoenberg's Journey and Twin: A Memoir.
Shawn began composing at the age of ten, but dates his mature work from 1977. He has written a dozen orchestral works, including a Symphony, and Piano Concerto, and a Violin Concerto; three chamber operas; four piano sonatas and many additional works for piano; a large catalogue of chamber music, songs and choral music. Among Shawn's available recordings are several of chamber music, three CDs of piano music, a Piano Concerto performed by Ursula Oppens with the Albany Symphony Orchestra under the direction of David Alan Miller, and a chamber opera "The Music Teacher", with a libretto by his brother, Wallace Shawn.
Archive Editions
- Etudes for Piano, Book 1SKU: 9172*
Piano Solo
Shawn, Allen - In Memory OfSKU: 8978*
Clarinet in B-flat and A, Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
Shawn, Allen - Three Pieces in Memory of Louis CalabroSKU: 1.3653*
Viola Solo
Shawn, Allen - Fantasia for Solo CelloSKU: 8990*
Violoncello Solo
Shawn, Allen - Elegy: Largo from Violin ConcertoSKU: 1.3396*
Violin and Piano
Shawn, Allen - Five Miniatures for Two CellosSKU: 1.3567*
Cello Duet
Shawn, Allen - Three Dance PortraitsSKU: 1.3447*
Piano Four-Hands
Shawn, Allen - These Holy Lights (Haneirot Halalu)SKU: 1.3411*
SA and Keyboard
Shawn, Allen - ValentineSKU: 1.3034*
Piano
Shawn, Allen - Suite Parisienne (2013 Expanded Version)SKU: 1.3370*
Piano Four-hands
Shawn, Allen