Allan Gilliland
Allan Gilliland is a contemporary Canadian composer.
Gilliland moved to Canada in 1972 and settled in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a diploma in Jazz Studies from Humber College, and degrees in performance and composition from the University of Alberta. His teachers were Violet Archer, Malcolm Forsyth and Howard Bashaw.
He has written music for solo instruments, orchestra, chorus, brass quintet, wind ensemble, big band, film, television and theatre.
His works have been performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, ProCoro Canada, the Canadian Brass, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the New York Pops, the Hammerhead Consort, and the brass section of the New York Philharmonic.
From 1999 to 2004, Gilliland was Composer in Residence with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, composing nine major works, including concerti for violin, and two harps. Dreaming of the Masters I, a jazz concerto written for clarinet soloist James Campbell, is perhaps his most popular work, and received its American premiere by the Boston Pops in 2004.
Dreaming of the Masters II - GEB, a jazz rhapsody for piano and orchestra written for William Eddins and jointly commissioned by CBC and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, received its world premiere on February 22, 2008. Dreaming of the Masters III, a three-movement jazz suite for trumpet and orchestra written for Jens Lindemann and commissioned by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra with funding from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts received its world premiere on September 17, 2010. His orchestral work On the Shoulders of Giants won first prize at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's Composers Competition in 2002., Allan Gordon Bell, John Estacio, and Jeffrey McCune following the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's performance of their music in April 2005
In 2007, the Alberta-based Arktos Recordings Limited label released Collaborations, a CD devoted exclusively to Gilliland's music. The track listing is:
- The Winspear Fanfare
- M'bira
- Suite from the Sound
- Cancion
- Love's Red Rose
- Four by Four
- Roots
- Concerto for Oboe, Strings and Harpsichord
Gilliland is currently Chair of the Music Program and Head of the Composition Department at MacEwan University in Edmonton.Works
Chamber music
- Suite from the Sound
- Go Deeply Now Everlasting
- Love's Red Rose
- Adventures
- Sacred Time
- Basse Danse
- Roots
- M'bira
- Reflections of Infinity
- Four by Four
- Two Wheels for Four Percussion
Fanfares
- Early Mornin' Fanfare
- Enbridge Fanfare
- A Call to Your Seats
- The Winspear Fanfare
Jazz Band
- A Touch of Olive and Brown
- Abanico
- Another Softly
- Petits Oiseaux
- Rhythm Buddy
- Stranger on the Prairie
Keyboard
- Spring Celebration
- Cancion
Musical Theatre
- The 7th Circle
- Dead Beat: A Zombie Musical
Opera
Orchestra
- Fantasia on themes from West Side Story
- Fantasia on themes from West Side Story
- Alberta Echoes
- Always Be True
- Loch na Beiste
- An Overture for the Worlds
- On the Shoulders of Giants
- Shadows & Light
Orchestra with Choir
- O Canada
- We Stood Beside Each Other
Orchestra with Dancers
Orchestra with Soloist
- Dreaming of the Masters III 2010
- Dreaming of the Masters II - Rhapsody GEB
- Concerto for Oboe, Strings and Harpsichord
- Concerto for Accordion and String Orchestra
- Dreaming of the Masters I
- Gaol's Rhuah Ròs - A Celtic Concerto for Two Harps and Orchestra
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
- Concerto for Trumpet
Vocal
Choral
- Ubi Caritas
- Blessed
- A la esperanza
- In My Cloudless Days
- He Tells of Perfect Beau'y
- Beloved be at Peace
- The Cloths of Heaven
Wind Ensemble
- Inspiration
- Dreaming of the Masters I
- Concerto for Piccolo Trumpet
- Pulsar
- For 250 years
- Loch na Beiste
- Dreamscapes
- Amaryllis
- Ascension
- ukuTusa
