| Short Bio | American composer, cellist and arranger Alan M. Shulman was born in Baltimore, June 4, 1915. Shulman's early studies were with Bart Wirtz (cello) and Louis Cheslock (harmony) at the Peabody Conservatory. From 1932-37 he attended the Juilliard School where he was a fellowship student, studying cello with Felix Salmond and composition with Bernard Wagenaar. While still a student, he composed music for the American Children's Theatre production of Hans Christian Anderson's The Chinese Nightingale. After graduating, he continued his cello studies with Emanuel Feuermann and composition with Paul Hindemith.
Shulman taught cello at Sarah Lawrence College, Juilliard, SUNY-Purchase, Johnson State College (VT) and the University of Maine untile his retirement in 1987. He was made a Chevalier du Violoncelle by the Eva Janzer Cello Center at Indiana Unversity in 1997. Alan Shulman died July 10, 2002 at a nursing home in Hudson, New York. He is survived by his sons Jay Shulman, a cellist, and Marc Shulman, a guitarist; and daughters Laurie Shulman, a program annotator and author, and Lisa Shulman. |
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