Alan Ray Hacker OBE FRAM (born 30 September 1938) is an English clarinettist and professor of the Royal Academy of Music.
He was born in 1938, the son of Kenneth and Sybil Hacker. After attending Dulwich College (from 1950 to 1955), he went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music where he won the Dove Prize and the Boise Travelling Scholarship which he used to study in Paris, Bayreuth and Vienna. In 1959 he married Anna Maria Sroka with whom he...
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Alan Ray Hacker OBE FRAM (born 30 September 1938) is an English clarinettist and professor of the Royal Academy of Music.
He was born in 1938, the son of Kenneth and Sybil Hacker. After attending Dulwich College (from 1950 to 1955), he went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music where he won the Dove Prize and the Boise Travelling Scholarship which he used to study in Paris, Bayreuth and Vienna. In 1959 he married Anna Maria Sroka with whom he had two daughters.
In 1958 he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He became a professor of the Royal Academy of Music in 1960 and went on to found the Pierrot Players in 1965 along with Stephen Pruslin and Harrison Birtwistle which in 1972 became the Fires of London. In 1971 he founded his own group, Matrix. He was also appointed chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Music section and of the British section of the International Society for Contemporary Music. He was one of those credited with reviving the basset clarinet and in...
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