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Alan Wells

Composer

Born: 1948

Biography

Alan Richard Wells was born in Havelock, Pelorus Sound in 1948 and educated by correspondence school (1954-64). Subsequently he studied part-time at the Christchurch Technical Institute (1967-8), University of Canterbury (1970-1), and later, Victoria University of Wellington (1973-6, 1982-7) while pursuing various occupations including Secretary for Amnesty International NZ Section 1976-7, and Assistant Librarian for IHC 1985-8. In 1988 he graduated with a BA in Musicology.

Alan is a designer, maker and player of instruments capable of microtonal and just-tuned scales and was winner of the performance section of the 1987 Composers' Competition at Victoria University. His poems, haiku and visual concrete poems have been published in Cave, Landfall and in the anthologies A Fall of Leaves (1988), Winter's Blossom (1989) and Frosted Rails (1990). Alan has contributed articles on musical topics to Salient, Canzona, Music In New Zealand and the Listener.