BIOGRAPHY
ALAN A CRAIG
Alan is a graduate of the music departments of the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. He now combines work as a freelance musician with his role as Curriculum Manager for Music at Glasgow Clyde College.
He specialises in composing and arranging choral and orchestral music for popular concerts, the church and the theatre. His best-known works are A Diminished Mass (2011) and the one-act children’s opera The Nicht’s the Nicht! (2001). A recording of the latter work featuring the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus and the City of Prague Philharmonic was broadcast as the centrepiece of an evening concert on Classic FM in 2007.
In the period between the premieres of these two works much of Alan’s composition and arranging work emerged from his musical directorships of the widely acclaimed XLC Theatre Company and the Springfield Cambridge Festival Chorus and Orchestra. The latter organisation was initiated by Alan in 2002. Since then it has raised over £350,000 for the Children’s Hospice Association (Scotland). In 2011 Alan was recognised for this work when he was awarded Rotary International’s highest award, the Paul Harris Fellowship.
He specialises in composing and arranging choral and orchestral music for popular concerts, the church and the theatre. His best-known works are A Diminished Mass (2011) and the one-act children’s opera The Nicht’s the Nicht! (2001). A recording of the latter work featuring the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus and the City of Prague Philharmonic was broadcast as the centrepiece of an evening concert on Classic FM in 2007.
In the period between the premieres of these two works much of Alan’s composition and arranging work emerged from his musical directorships of the widely acclaimed XLC Theatre Company and the Springfield Cambridge Festival Chorus and Orchestra. The latter organisation was initiated by Alan in 2002. Since then it has raised over £350,000 for the Children’s Hospice Association (Scotland). In 2011 Alan was recognised for this work when he was awarded Rotary International’s highest award, the Paul Harris Fellowship.
