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Susan Allen (May 10, 1951 – September 7, 2015) was an American harpist and Associate Dean of the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts. Of her solo concert debut featuring new works, ''The New York Times'' wrote, “sheer physical virtuosity…sensitive, expertly played.”〔Montague, Gary. Live Electronics. Vol. 6. CRC Press, 1992.〕 She spent her early years in Santa Barbara, California, graduating from Santa Barbara High School in 1969. She studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and then transferred to the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, receiving a BFA in 1973. She obtained an MA and PhD from Schools on Borders in 2006. She commissioned, premiered, recorded and performed numerous works for harp by James Tenney, Ruth Lomon, Earl Kim, William Thomas McKinley and other artists.〔Sposato, Jeffrey S. William Thomas McKinley: a bio-bibliography. No. 56. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/HARPIST+TRAVELS+GLOBE.-a083847136 )〕 As a jazz artist, she is known for free improvisation as well as work in world music genres, having appeared internationally with such artists as Swapan Chaudhuri, Yusef Lateef, L. Subramaniam, Adam Rudolph, Ed Sarath and Roman Stolyar. She performed at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles with a grant from Meet the Composer (Rockefeller Foundation & AT&T) Program in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts. Allen improvised alongside saxophonist Anthony Braxton, sitarist Amiya Dasgupta and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. She also performed with drummer Albert Heath, violinist L. Shankar, as well as Dave Brubeck.〔Stokes, W. Royal. Living the jazz life: conversations with forty musicians about their careers in jazz. Oxford University Press, 2002.〕 Susan Allen died on September 7, 2015, aged 64, from cancer. ==Early life== Allen was the second of five children born to Dorothy (née Wheeler) and George H. Allen, a pianist and lawyer. Her first studies of the harp were with Suzanne Balderston, whose husband, composer Mahlon Balderston, was organist at the First Unitarian Church in Santa Barbara, where Allen’s mother Dorothy was choir director. She studied at the Music Academy of the West with Leon Fleisher for chamber music and Maurice Abravanel for orchestra, winning the Abravanel Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1971. Subsequent harp studies were with Bernard Zighera, principal harpist of the Boston Symphony, Marcel Grandjany, Catherine Gotthoffer and Marcella DeCray. Her primary mentor and lifelong associate was the jazz pianist Mel Powell, who was founding Dean of the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susan Allen (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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