Allan Crossman

has written for many soloists and ensembles. The North/South Consonance (NYC) recording of Millennium Overture Dance received a GRAMMY nomination in 2003; Music for Human Choir (SATB) shared Top Honors at the Waging Peace through Singing Festival; 2011 premieres include Sonata fLux, a new commission from Brazilian pianist Artur Cimirro, in Melbourne, Australia, and Arriving at Loch Lomond, by the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and the Oakland Civic Orchestra.

One of his many theatre scores, The Log of the Skipper's Wife, was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford and at the Kennedy Center, with Crossman's music drawn from Irish/English shanties and dances. He was music director/arranger for the popular Canada/Hong Kong tour of Anne of Green Gables, and his music is the soundtrack for the award-winning animated short, X MAN, by Christopher Hinton (National Film Board of Canada).

His work has been supported by American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer (NY), and Canada Council for the Arts, among others. He is Professor Emeritus, Concordia University (Montreal), and has also taught at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Wheaton College, the Pacific Conservatory, and the Crowden School. His graduate studies were with George Rochberg, George Crumb, and Hugo Weisgall at the University of Pennsylvania.

Teaching

Associate Professor of Music, Emeritus, Concordia University, Montreal, Que.
1976-2001.
Faculty, San Francisco Conservatory, San Francisco, CA 2002-present
Adjunct Professor of Music, Pacific Conservatory, Stockton, CA. 2001
Composition Faculty, John Adams Young Composers Program, Crowden Music
Center, Berkeley, CA
Head of Composition Studies, School of Contemporary Music, Boston 1974-75
Assistant Professor of Music, Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. 1969-72
Composition instructor, School of the Arts, San Francisco 1989-90.

Education

B.A., M.A. (Honors in Music Theory and Composition), University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia 1964, 1966; studies with George Rochberg, George Crumb,
Hugo Weisgall.