Alan Fey has been a percussionist with ALIAS since 2015 and is grateful to play with such a talented group! Based in Nashville, his performing focus is on the creation of new music, having been involved in the commissioning and world premieres of over two dozen works. Alan has performed in spaces ranging from the Zeitgeist Art Gallery to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center to Carnegie Hall. Alan studied primarily with Chris Norton while earning his Bachelor's & Master of Music degrees in percussion performance. He spent a year in Dresden studying with Bernhard Schmidt, a timpanist with the Dresdner Staatskapelle, which included multiple performances at the Dresden Semperoper. In addition to ALIAS, Alan has performed with the Nashville Symphony and Nashville Opera Orchestras, INTERSECTION, and Paramount Chamber Players, as a concerto soloist with the Nashville Philharmonic and Belmont Symphony Orchestras, in various chamber settings, and as a soloist and clinician throughout the southeast. He spent two years as the Assistant Music Director and Rehearsal Conductor for the Belmont University Opera, has arranged nearly a dozen works for voice and marimba, and has completed a Requiem Mass for choir.

In addition to his work performing solo and chamber music, Alan is an arts administrator, composer, arranger, and conductor who specializes in performance logistics. He currently works as the Operations Director for the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra and as the Executive Director of Make Music Nashville, an organization he co-founded in 2014. He previously served as an arts administrator with ALIAS and Portara Ensemble. Alan directed the Make Music Nashville production – and the Nashville premiere – of John Luther Adams’ Inuksuit for 35 musicians at Cumberland Park in May 2015. He is also actively involved in advocating for equity in arts and cultural funding, especially from government funding sources.