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Alan Terricciano
Chair and Associate Professor of Dance
(Composition & Piano)
Office: 300 Mesa Arts Building
Phone: 949-824–5744
E-mail: aterricc@uci.edu
M.M., Eastman School of Music
Professionally active as a composer and pianist
with a particular focus on choreographic collaboration, Alan Terricciano
has received numerous commissions and awards. In 2000, Mr. Terricciano
won the Grand Prize in
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Quebec's Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur international
competition for original composition for choreography with his work Blue
Motions, for string quartet. In April 2005 Mr. Terricciano completed
a commission for the Ballet company of the Amsterdam Theater Schule to choreography
by Douglas Becker. In October 2003, the Orange Coast Symphony premiered
his Concerto for Clarinet and Strings, commissioned by their conductor,
Dr. Ricardo Soto. In November 2002, Canciones de Fray Serra, for
orchestra, premiered with the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra (Illinois). Another
large-scale work, Night Cafe (after Vincent), a commission from
the Yale Concert Band, premiered in November of 1998. In December of 1999,
he performed Frederic Rzewski's 4 North American Ballads for the
Piano with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater at City Center in New York City
for the premiere of Donald McKayle's Danger Run. Mr. Terricciano’s
first orchestral score, A Tale of the Spider, for narrator and
orchestra, was performed by the Minnesota Orchestra in November 1994, and
by the Elmhurst Symphony in March of 1996. Recent collaborations include
work with Donald McKayle, Colin Connor, Jeff Slayton, Loretta Livingston,
Mark Haim and Douglas Nielsen. He has been on the faculty at the American
Dance Festival, for 14 years, with appearances in its satellite festival
in Seoul, Korea in 1994 and 2000.
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