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Glen Shannon Music was founded in 1998 when the Prelude & Fugue in D Minor for SSATB recorders (now published as SMM100) won first prize in 1997 in the biennial composition contest sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the American Recorder Society. The main focus is publishing music for recorder ensembles, but that could change at any moment. One of the basic rules of my music is that all parts are interesting - after spending years in high school and college concert bands, I learned that it's boring playing all whole-notes on the contrabass clarinet, or in the third clarinet section. So I like to keep everyone interested. The Prelude & Fugue is an excellent example of that philosophy.

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About Glen Shannon
I grew up near Buffalo, NY, the third of five. The Middle Child. My older brother and sister are also musicians - my sister Tammy is an excellent guitarist and songwriter playing since she was seven, about the same time my brother Sean got his first drumset. Now he is a professional drummer and owns sound recording studios outside Orlando. Sean also writes and records original country music in his recording studio, and has a self-produced CD out. My younger sister Erin is a musician and writer in Upstate New York, and the youngest sister, Meghan, is a veterinarian in Colorado.

The first time I encountered a recorder was in third grade, when everyone had to learn it. The school used it as a litmus test of musical aptitude, which then helped determine who would be in the school band. I was a natural at it (at least compared to the other kids) and joined the band the next year as the first-chair clarinet. It wasn't until years later that I learned there were any other sizes of recorder besides the soprano!

My musical training consists of spending my teen years learning volumes of JS Bach's work by heart, and a couple theory classes while an undergrad at Cornell University (class of '88). Bach's preludes, fantasias, toccatas and fugues for organ were my particular favorites and at age twelve I started writing music which emulated his style. Of course it wasn't exactly *stellar*, but you have to start somewhere, right? Since then I've refined my own style of composing - now that I know some of the rules, I like to break them with impunity.

In addition to composing music I am also involved with the East Bay Recorder Society, where I was the President for three years, and now I'm the keeper of the chapter music library, and I also heckle at chapter meetings.

I actually have a nice day job at a small graphics company in San Francisco called TransPacific Digital, which specializes in digital prepress, graphics and web design in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean). Usually the non-Asian multilingual projects come to me; in addition to the "standard" languages that come through, recently I've done some fun projects in Arabic, Hebrew, Russian and Kazakh.