Alan Cox

Flutist Alan Cox has been named to the faculty of the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia where he will serve as principal flute of the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Cox currently serves as principal flute of the American Sinfonietta and is a member of New York's Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. He has worked extensively in New York City and San Francisco. While in San Francisco, he was principal flute of the San Francisco Opera, Sinfonia San Francisco, and the San Francisco Chamber Symphony, as well as being solo flute of the Anchor Chamber Players and appearing in numerous recitals and concerto engagements. In New York Mr. Cox has been principal flute of such prominent ensembles as the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Opera Orchestra of New York, and has been a member of the New York Chamber Symphony and solo piccolo of the Metropolitan Opera. He has additionally appeared frequently with the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony. He has participated in tours throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Korea. A founding member of the New York New Music Ensemble, he has given premiere performances of works by Joseph Schwantner, Peter Maxwell Davies, Tod Machover and other leading composers. He has been a faculty member of Rutgers University, where he was a member of the Raritan Winds, the faculty woodwind quintet, the Juilliard School, SUNY-Binghamton, and Westminster Choir College. He has recorded for Columbia, Warner Bros., Opus One, Delos, Musical Heritage Society, Finnadar, ROM Productions, Mediaphon, and Sony Classical. Mr. Cox studied with Julius Baker at the Juilliard School, where he earned Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees, and collaborated with Mr. Baker as editor for a number of publications, including Baker's Daily Exercises for the Flute. He also studied with Marcel Moyse and William Bennett.

Mr. Cox is also a composer. He acknowledges guidance from such diverse teachers as Vincent Persichetti, Lester Trimble, Elliott Carter, Roger Sessions, and Vladimir Ussachevsky, but considers himself primarily self-taught. His output ranges from solo and chamber works to a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra, "Illuminations", set to texts by the poet Arthur Rimbaud, to a piece for large orchestra, "Six Orchestral Images after Magritte", musical depictions of paintings by the surrealist painter Rene Magritte.