Education
He took his Bachelor (1963) and Master of Arts (1965) at Indiana University and his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago (1973). In between he studied at Stockholm University.
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Alan Swanson
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As an academic, he taught at Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois), Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah), and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), and came to specialize in the theatre and opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Trained as a singer, many of his early compositions are for voice, but recent work has tended to be varied in form: string quartets, a viola concerto, a partita for piano, and others In 2006, he was honored for his academic and community work by being appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.
