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John Allanbrook

*1978 US
Composer / Conductor of Classical

American Conductor, Horn Player, and Composer Born 1978 (the son of composer Douglas Allanbrook) and raised in Annapolis, Maryland. Started playing French horn at 10. By 12 he was studying with Stephen Barzal and then with Peter Kurau of the Eastman School. He won the Maryland Solo and Ensemble competitions for horn and played in the Maryland All-State Orchestra. While still in high school he played principal horn in the Chesapeake Youth Symphony, the Maryland Youth Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. He entered Harvard in 1995 and studied horn with Eric Ruske. He also started composing and in 1999 won the Harvard Bach Society Composition Competition for two orchestral works. A polymath, he also won the Eliot House Prize for Mathematics and Physics, the Wendell Scholarship, the Institute for Advanced Studies Summer Fellowship in Mathematics -- all while pursuing advanced studies in Greek and Latin. While at Harvard he began studying conducting with James Yannatos, and he organized and conducted an orchestra and singers in a series of concert performances which included works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Wagner. Since graduating John has continued conducting and performing on French horn. He continued conducting studies with Gerhard Samuel, Donald Portnoy, David Milnes, and Ken Kiesler, as well as in Aspen with David Zinman and Murray Sidlan. As a conductor he champions the works of his father, but he also remains committed to composing and has created a substantial body of his own works.

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