While at MacDowell Kris Allen composed six short pieces for a quartet of jazz improvisers, to be recorded for Truth Revolution Recording Collective in the fall of 2018, and worked on a large ensemble piece (an homage to the great Roy Hargrove)to be performed by the AH/HA jazz ensemble in August 2018
Kris Allen
Studios
MacDowell
Kris Allen worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…