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An Evening With..., Vol. 1

114K streams

114,017

L'abîme: Bioluminescence

101.2K streams

101,194

One Thing Is Certain: A Dance Film (Or...

16.1K streams

16,091

Doris Dear's Gurl Talk (Original Telev...

7.4K streams

7,357

Conversion (Original Motion Picture So...

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3,565

Sonatas

The Shards of an Honor Code Junkie

Blake Allen: Insomnia

A Very Marti Holiday

Biography

Known for scoring "strings to make you swoon" (New York Times), BLAKE LIAHONA ALLEN, PhD is an internationally recognized, award-winning composer, violist, and producer with a unique voice in contemporary music. Often merging the worlds of opera and musical theatre with traditional classical forms, Allen sits at the forefront of a surrealist, maximalist, and humanist world where his talents are only enumerated through the creation of a bespoke genre tailored to the brilliant artists he collaborates with. An ex-Mormon, Allen's music is imbued with of darker, queer themes juxtaposed with hypocritical meritocracy of Disney ideals. As an extension of the simplicity found in Richard M. Sherman's melodies, Allen finds ways to blur lucidity into lush melancholy without falling into saccharine cliche´. Allen's compositional credits include The Shards of an Honor Code Junkie, Conversion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), and his forthcoming INSOMNIA which arrives straight from Carnegie Hall. Having lived in the classical world for most of his life, Allen's debut solo album, Sonatas, was released in April 2020 – four years after its debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – and depicts the ethereal worlds of the deep sea and alien life in rural America, both scientific themes that permeate Allen's creative output. Allen received his PhD from New York University, where he created the singular, reductive analysis of György Ligeti's Viola Sonata.