Allen Shearer Lecturer - Voice

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Email: allenshearer@gmail.com

Allen Shearer has a well established reputation as a teacher, performer, and composer. He has taught voice privately since 1964 and in the Music 150 program at U.C. since 1976. Trained in Europe as well as the U.S., he earned diplomas in concert singing and opera from the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria as well as a Ph.D. in music at U.C. He also studied briefly in Paris on the Charles Ives Scholarship, and spent a year in Italy on the Rome Prize Fellowship. Knowledge of European languages and culture informs his teaching as well as his vocal interpretations.

Active as a singer, Mr. Shearer appears with various musical organizations in Northern California. He has been a frequent performer in the Mendocino Music Festival, most recently as baritone soloist in Brahms' EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM. A specialist in contemporary music, he has appeared with Earplay, Composers, Inc., and new music ensembles at the Berkeley and Davis campuses of U.C. He has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony as well as the San Francisco Community Orchestra, Bella Musica, Berkeley Opera, and many other groups. Together with pianist Barbara Shearer, he has presented a great many song recitals over a 35-year period, with programs ranging from the standard German and French repertoire to works of Schoenberg and Dallapiccola, and his own compositions.

As a composer, Allen Shearer has received many honors and awards, of which the most recent was a residence at the Copland House in the Hudson River Valley. Several of his works--orchestral, operatic, and chamber--have been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. His choral music has been performed in nearly every state of the U.S. as well as in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and South Africa.