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B. Allen Schulz (b. 1964) is the great grandson of the famous vaudevillian and Chicago jazzman, Ollie Powers. He studied music composition at Wabash College, Yale University, and The City University of New York. His primary composition instructors have been Eric Lund and Charles Dodge. Allen’s musical interests are eclectic and varied. His compositional activities range from music theater to experimental computer-generated music; from arrangements of sacred music for use in worship services to serialized twelve-tone works for orchestra. He has been commissioned to compose music for groups as diverse as the award-winning Minimum Wage theater troupe, secondary school ensembles at the Baccalaureate School for Global Education in Queens, NY, The Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, North/South Consonance, the Ursula vocal ensemble, Iktus Percussion Quartet, Anubis Saxophone Quartet, Ursula, The Round Rock Symphony, and the Voces Novae et Antiquae Chorus. Allen works as a consulting editor for the G. Schirmer Music Publisher new works and premieres department. He is proud to be an integral part of the musical scene in his own neighborhood: he volunteers his time teaching music theory and performance at a local high school, and he serves as the executive director of the Astoria Music Society. He is also the founder of Random Access Music, a consortium of New York City-based composers who manage and present performances of their own music in collaboration with new music performance ensembles. Allen is particularly interested in composing for the human voice and in American-style guitar playing (both electric and acoustic), and he is comfortable working with radical and experimental compositions as much as he is with simpler and more accessible genres, such as music written specifically for children. His awards include the Evenbach Prize in Music Composition, The John Cage Prize in Experimental Music, and high honors in the University of Oregon Waging Peace Through Singing choral competition. Allen lives in Astoria, Queens, with his daughter, Naomi, and his partner, Rebecca. He enjoys traveling with Rebecca as often as they can–particularly to places that have ecological or natural treasures. Allen is an avid scuba diver–-holding a certification as a rescue diver–-and he has a knack for turning almost any kind of interesting conversation into a less interesting one about running or diving in just a few sentences.

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Gargoyle Garden at the NYC Fringe Festival	8/20/2008 08:00 PM Bleecker Street Theater 45 Bleecker Street NEW YORK NY us	Phone: Email: Web:
Gargoyle Garden at the NYC Fringe Festival	8/17/2008 02:30 PM Bleecker Street Theater 45 Bleecker St. NEW YORK NY us	Phone: Email: Web:
Gargoyle Garden at the NYC Fringe Festival	8/13/2008 05:15 PM Bleecker Street Theater 45 Bleecker St. NEW YORK NY us	Phone: Email: Web:
Gargoyle Garden at the NYC Fringe Festival	8/10/2008 05:30 PM Bleecker Street Theater 45 Bleecker St. NEW YORK NY us	Phone: Email: Web:
Gargoyle Garden a the NYC Fringe Festival Performance of the musical Gargoyle Garden at the NYC Fringe Festival. Book and Lyrics by Jeff Lagreca; music by B. Allen Schulz	8/9/2008 07:45 PM Bleecker Street Theater 45 Bleecker Street NEW YORK NY us	Phone: Email: Web:www.gargoylegarden.com
Random Access Music and Lost Dog: RhododendRAM Still Life (with Monkey) for Clarinet and Cello	5/4/2008 02:00 PM Flushing Library, Queens 41-17 Main Street Flushing NY us	Phone: Email: Web:
Random Access Music and Lost Dog: RhododendRAM Still Life (with Monkey) for Clarinet and Cello	5/2/2008 08:00 PM TenRi Cultural Center 43-A W. 13th Street New York NY us	Phone: Email: Web:

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