ALAN FLETCHER

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Alan Fletcher, one of this country’s most accomplished music administrators and respected composers, earned his baccalaureate at Princeton University and his master’s degree and doctorate at Juilliard. He studied composition with Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone, and Paul Lansky and piano with Jacob Lateiner and Robert Helps. In 1985, Fletcher was appointed to the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, teaching composition and theory and serving successively during his tenure at the school as Dean, Provost, and Senior Vice President. From 2001 to 2006, he was Professor and Head of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University, after which he assumed his current position as president and CEO of the Aspen Music Festival and School. 

Fletcher has won numerous composing awards and received commissions from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony (2008, 2011, and 2015), Atlanta Symphony, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, National Dance Institute, National Gallery of Art, Boston Celebrity Series, New York Camerata, and other noted ensembles, organizations, and soloists. His Piano Concerto, written for pianist Inon Barnatan, premiered at the Aspen Music Festival and School and Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Hollywood Bowl. His “Three American Songs,” written for Renée Fleming, was premiered in Aspen in June 2024.

Photo: Lynn Goldsmith