Allen Feinstein

Allen Feinstein’s narrated work The Little Engine That Could has been performed by orchestras almost one hundred times across the country. His Concerto for Euphonium was recorded by Adam Frey and the New Zealand Symphony and won the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s Phillips Prize for Compositional Excellence. Fashion Goddess, Feinstein’s comic retelling of the Athena-Arachne myth written for musical theatre mezzo-soprano and band, received multiple co-premieres in 2022-23 by members of an American Composers Forum consortium. He conducted, orchestrated, and composed silent film scores for a DVD set produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation, which was on “ten-best” lists of Time, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Feinstein’s compositions have been performed by the New Zealand Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Banda Municipal de Jaen (Spain), Virginia Symphony, US Army Orchestra, Akron Symphony, and many other ensembles. As a conductor, Feinstein leads Northeastern University’s Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Orchestra, and the Harvard Pops Orchestra. He serves as Director of Music Performance at Northeastern, and is Music Supervisor for Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, an organization dedicated to creating and producing a new musical each year.