Musicologist, composer and recorder player. Alon graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance with a B.Mus. in composition and recorder performance and an M.Mus. in composition. As an Ussher Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, he wrote his doctoral dissertation in musicology under Dr. Martin Adams on the subject of ‘Compositional Technique in Purcell’s Early Instrumental Works’. He is a committee member of the Purcell Society, and he co-edits Purcell’s King Arthur for the Purcell Society Edition. Since 2012, Alon has been a faculty member in the Department of Music in the University of Haifa. His recently rediscovered the 1832 ‘Israeliten’ manuscript (together with his research partner David Rees), the earliest source of Schubert’s Psalm 92 D.953.
Contact : alon.schab@gmail.com
Séance - Teaching and Pedagogy (II) 12.B.5 : Problems in Appropriating Seventeenth Century Repertoire into Present-Day Theory Class (Henry Purcell as a Case Study)
