# Michael Alcorn

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**Michael Peter Alcorn** (born 22 January 1962) is a full-time academic and current Director of the School of Music and Sonic Arts at [Queen's University, Belfast](/source/Queen's_University,_Belfast) and a partite composer. He was born in [Belfast](/source/Belfast), [Northern Ireland](/source/Northern_Ireland).[1]

Michael Alcorn studied at the [University of Ulster](/source/University_of_Ulster) and completed a PhD in composition with [John Casken](/source/John_Casken) at the [University of Durham](/source/University_of_Durham).[2][3] In 1989 he was appointed composer-in-residence at Queen's University, Belfast, where he continues to teach in the School of Music. He is particularly active as a promoter of new music technologies and was appointed director of SARC, the Sonic Arts Research Centre based at Queen's University, Belfast, in 2001. He has been a visiting composer at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University), and at [Simon Fraser University](/source/Simon_Fraser_University), Vancouver.

His compositional activities range from music for conventional instruments to works for live or taped electro-acoustic performance. His music has been performed and broadcast in the UK, Europe, North and South America and the Far East.

He serves as the Musical Director of [Downshire Brass](/source/Downshire_Brass).

## References

1. Lalor, Brian (ed.) (2003). *The Encyclopaedia of Ireland*. Dublin, Ireland: Gill & Macmillan. p. 20. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2.

1. ["SARC / Sonic Arts Research Centre / Queens University Belfast"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110529061313/http://143.117.78.181/main.php?page=people&ptypeID=&pID=1). *143.117.78.181*. Archived from [the original](http://143.117.78.181/main.php?page=people&ptypeID=&pID=1) on 29 May 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

1. Axel Klein (2001). [*Irish Classical Recordings: A Discography of Irish Art Music*](https://books.google.com/books?id=pXEAjYv6Jc8C). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-313-31742-2. Retrieved 18 November 2020.

## External links

- [Sonic Arts at Queens University](http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk)
- [Home Page](http://www.michaelalcorn.org)
- [Downshire Brass Home Page](http://www.downshirebrass.com)

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