Dr. Stephen Arthur Allen {D.Phil. (Oxon) [P.hD Oxford University], GBSM (First Class, Honors), LTCL (performance), ABSM (performance), ABSM (teaching), ALCM (performance), Music Professor, Rider University} came to prominence in the UK as one of the finest euphonium players of his generation. He was awarded the ALCM at age 16 and achieved national distinction in competition, winning the Open section of the British National Solo Championships, and on television. He was awarded a Royal Academy Scholarship by legendary brass band composer Eric Ball, OBE and Geoffrey Brand, conductor of Black Dyke Band. He played principal euphonium with many of the leading championship section British brass bands, widely considered the best in the world. In 2010 Dr. Allen gave the prestigious world premiere of the complete four-movement Gareth Wood 'Euphonium Concerto' at the invitation of publishers Geoffrey and Michael Brand with the Rutgers Symphonic Band under the direction of Professor Darryl Bott. Allen’s article on the Wood Concerto was published in the ITEA Journal (Spring, 2011) and the film of the premiere has had over 1000 hits to date: http://www.archive.org/details/EuphoniumConcerto2006GarethWoodWorldPremierecompleteDr.Stephen Dr. Allen was a Guest Artist at the North Eastern Regional NERTEC in Spring 2011, where he gave the premiere of the Symphonic Rhapsody for Euphonium by Edward Gregson with it’s newly published piano accompaniment.

Since 2008 Dr. Allen has maintained a euphonium and chamber music studio as Visiting Professor at Rutgers. In that time Dr. Allen’s students have worked professionally across the USA. Also his student, David Demair, gained a Fulbright scholarship, and gone on to Post-Graduate studies with David Thornton and Steven Mead at the prestigious Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK. This is only the second Fulbright ever to be awarded in the history of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

In 2004 Dr. Allen founded the Princeton Brass Band, ensemble-in-residence at Rider University since 2010, of which he is Musical Director. www.princetonbrassband.com The band has played across the USA winning prizes at the 2008 and 2011 North American Brass Band Association (NABBA) Championship. Since 2008 Dr. Allen has served NABBA on the Music Committee and as Chair of the Development Committee and was voted President of NABBA for 2011-13.

Additionally Dr. Allen is a world authority in the operas and music of Benjamin Britten on which he is widely published. He is also Associate Professor of Music at Rider University where he teaches a wide range of courses and has initiated and co-designed a new B.A. in Popular Music Culture. http://www.rider.edu/faculty/stephen-arthur-allen