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Alan holds a degree in Music from the University of Alabama, where he studied French Horn with Greg Leffler (who studied with Philip Farkas) and studied Conducting with Dr. James Ferguson and Kathryn Scott (who both studied with Frederick Fennell). While at Alabama he won the 1982 Alabama Music Teachers Association Solo Competition, and represented the state in the Olympic All-American Marching Band at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
He currently is an unaffiliated E-flat Tenor Horn player, and continues to play French Horn, Tenor Horn and Mellophone in musical organizations and pit bands in and around the New York area. He also hosts The MelloCast, a podcast for middle brass players. He presently plays Horn for the Brooklyn Wind Symphony, and previously he has been a member of the Jersey City Brass, the Gramercy Brass Orchestra, the Imperial Brass, the Doctors Orchestral Society, the Brooklyn Camerata, the Queens Symphonic Band, the Mobile Pops Bandand the University of Alabama Million Dollar Band. Alan is a proud proponent of the Mellophone and aspires to be its champion.
Al's Mellophone Page
http://www.alsmiddlebrasspages.com/mellophoneAl's Tenor Horn Page
http://www.alsmiddlebrasspages.com/tenorhornThe MelloCast
http://www.mellocast.comThe Brooklyn Wind Symphony
http://www.brooklynwindsymphony.org
http://www.facebook.com/adperkinsBlog: I Was a Hot Dog
http://iwasahotdog.blogspot.com
