Allan naplan composer biography

An accomplished musician, Allan has enjoyed a long career as a composer of choral music and solo repertoire, for both secular and religious settings.
“From a very early age, I was surrounded by Jewish and classical music,” said Allan Naplan, who grew up in Peabody and Marblehead.
Composer: Allan E. Naplan.

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Allan Naplan named President of Minnesota Opera

Allan Naplan sings opera, produces radio programs and is an award-winning composer, but it was for his six seasons as general director of the Madison Opera where he achieved record box office sales, increased fundraising, and expanded the season that the Minnesota Opera wooed him away to serve as the organization's president.

Beginning this March, the Minnesota Opera welcomes Allan Naplan as their President and General Director

After a national search, the board feels they've found just the right guy to replace outgoing President Kevin Smith who served the opera for 30 years.

Allan Naplan brings a keen musical sensibility. He's an accomplished musician in his own right with compositions performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Avery Fisher Hall, the White House and in 36 foreign countries.

Naplan's "An American Anthem" was chosen to be the inaugural wake-up song for NASA astronauts on Space Shuttle Columbia.

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Allan Naplan

Allan Naplan maintains an active career as an arts administrator, composer and cantorial soloist. Since 2013, Allan has served as Executive and Producing Director of Arizona Musicfest in Scottsdale, AZ. Prior to this position, Naplan enjoyed a 20-year career in the field of opera, both as a performer (6 years) and administrator (14 years). Under his current leadership of Arizona Musicfest, he oversees all concert season programming and business operations of the acclaimed non-profit arts organization. An accomplished musician, Allan has enjoyed a long career as a composer of choral music and solo repertoire, for both secular and religious settings. An award-winning composer, his works have been heard at Carnegie Hall, The White House, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in space on-board Space Shuttle Columbia (Mission STS-107) and in distinguished concert venues around the world. As a cantorial soloist and composer of contemporary Jewish music, Allan’s settings of prayers and related texts have become popular repertoire for Jewish services and

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The classic story of a Jewish composer with North Shore roots

BOSTON – November began in memorable fashion for North Shore native and composer Allan Naplan.
On Nov. 2 and 3, Naplan’s piece, “Al Shlosha D’Varim,” was performed by the Handel and Haydn Society Children’s Choir during its annual Every Voice concert, which honors diverse communities within Boston as a way to unite the city through music. This year, the concert celebrated both the African-American and Jewish communities through music, with performances at the First Church in Roxbury and the Union United Methodist Church in the South End.

Naplan’s piece, based on Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the Fathers”), was composed in the early 1990s, and was part of a Jewish repertoire that also included works from Renaissance composers such as Salamone Rossi, an Italian Jewish violinist and composer. African-American composers included contemporary voices such as Zanaida Robles (“Umoja”) and historical characters such as Martin Delany, a major in the Civil War who was among the first three black men to gain acceptance to Harvard Medi