Everything about Allan Gilliland totally explained
Allan Gilliland (born
1965 in
Darvel,
Scotland) is a contemporary
Canadian composer.
Gilliland moved to
Canada in
1972 and settled in
Edmonton, Alberta. He received a diploma in Jazz Studies (
trumpet) from
Humber College, and degrees in performance and composition from the
University of Alberta. His teachers were
Violet Archer,
Malcolm Forsyth and Howard Bashaw.
He has written music for solo instruments,
orchestra,
chorus,
brass quintet,
wind ensemble,
big band,
film,
television and
theatre.
His works have been performed by the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, ProCoro Canada, the
Canadian Brass, the
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the New York Pops, the Hammerhead Consort, and the brass section of the
New York Philharmonic.
From
1999 to
2004, Gilliland was Composer in Residence with the
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, composing nine major works, including concerti for
violin, and two
harps.
Dreaming of the Masters I (
2003), a
jazz concerto written for
clarinet soloist
James Campbell, is perhaps his most popular work, and received its American premiere by the
Boston Pops in
2004.
Dreaming of the Masters II - GEB, a jazz rhapsody for piano and orchestra written for
William Eddins and jointly commissioned by
CBC and the
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, received its world premiere on
February 22,
2008. His orchestral work
On the Shoulders of Giants won first prize at the
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s Composers Competition in
2002.
In
2007, the Alberta-based Arktos Recordings Limited label released
Collaborations, a
CD devoted exclusively to Gilliland's music. The track listing is:
- The Winspear Fanfare (for brass and percussion) (1997)
- M'bira (for solo marimba) (1998)
- Suite from the Sound (for string quartet and clarinet) (2006)
- Cancion (for piano solo) (1999)
- Love’s Red Rose (for two harps) (2003)
- Four by Four (for two pianos and two percussionists) (1994)
- Roots (for double bass) (1999)
- Concerto for Oboe, Strings and Harpsichord (2004/5)
Gilliland is currently Head of the Composition at
Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton.
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