Molineux

Allen Molineux (b.1950) holds degree in composition from DePaul University, the Eastman School of Music and Florida State University.

He also attended the Lukas Foss Workshop at Indiana University in 1981, Gunther Schuller’s 1986 Atlantic Center for the Arts Workshop and Pierre Boulez’s Carnegie Hall Workshop in 1999.

His “Trifles” won the Tampa Bay Symphony’s contest; receiving three performances by them in 2017. It has been released on the ABLAZE Records label and is published by Da Vinci Publications. His “Zappy”was the winner of the Percussive Arts Society’s 2017 contest. In 2019, his “Something Unsettled” for trumpet and piano won the McMurry New Music Project and his “Tears of Ramah” was the first place winner of the Hillcrest Wind Ensemble Composition Contest and was performed by the University of Louisville’s Wind Ensemble at the College Music Society’s National Conference.

In 2021, his “Scherzi” was recorded by composer/pianist Jeffrey Jacob on the New Ariel label and his string orchestra piece “Contentamento” by conductor Pawel Kotla and the Kalisz Philharmonic Orchestra on the Phasma-Music label. In 2022 the Lansdowne Symphony premiered “When the Angels Sang” and in 2023 the Atlanta Philharmonic performed his “Trifles” and the Panama City Symphony premiered his “Three Kings Swing”. Molineux’s “Zapateado” was the 2024 composition contest winner for the Holyoke Civic Symphony.