Alan Pierson

On an everyday basis, conductor and artistic director of the following ensembles: Brooklyn Philharmonic, Alarm Will Sound and Crash Ensemble. Alan Pierson is an ardent advocate of contemporary music performance who has to his credit collaborations with such major composers as Steve Reich, John Adams, Augusta Reed Thomas, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Osvaldo Golijov, La Monte Young and Julia Wolfe. His recent achievements include the world première of John Adams’ Son of Chamber Symphony and the multimedia performance 1969 together with Alarm Will Sound, with which he has also performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Cal Performances, the Library of Congress and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as at festivals in Amsterdam, St. Petersburg, Moscow, the Bang on a Can Marathon in New York, Duke Performances in Durham and many others. His recent activities include the organization, together with Dawn Upshaw and Osvaldo Golijov, of workshops and concerts at Carnegie Hall, a concert tour with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, performances with such ensembles as the London Sinfonietta, Steve Reich Ensemble, New World Symphony, Ensemble 21, Ensemble Sospeso, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and Silk Road Project. He is the winner of an ASCAP award. The artist’s discography includes Steve Reich’s Tehillim, The Desert Music, and Variations for the Cantaloupe Music and Nonesuch labels, as well as Silk Road Journeys featuring Yo-Yo Ma. The disc a/rhythmia, released in 2009, is to be found on the lists of best discs of the year published by the Washington Post and the Boston Herald.