Composer/guitarist Alan Hirsh received his BFA from the University of Arizona in composition and his master’s and
doctorate degrees in composition from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Hirsh currently resides
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he is the Music Director at Bishop-McGuinness Catholic High School
and the artistic director of the Piedmont Guitar Orchestra. He has composed and arranged extensively for the guitar
in solo and ensemble mediums. At the GFA 2000 festival, Hirsh was invited to co-direct the first ever US/Mexico
Guitar Orchestra which also debuted his work New Dawn. His original works appear in other Mel Bay publications
such as Aaron Shearer’s Learning the Classic Guitar Part II (MB#94362) and New Music for Classic Guitar.