Jewish Life through Music

Allan Naplan maintains an active career as an arts administrator, composer and cantorial soloist. Since 2013, Allan has served as Executive and Producing Director of Arizona Musicfest in Scottsdale, AZ. Prior to this position, Naplan enjoyed a 20-year career in the field of opera, both as a performer (6 years) and administrator (14 years). Under his current leadership of Arizona Musicfest, he oversees all concert season programming and business operations of the acclaimed non-profit arts organization. An accomplished musician, Allan has enjoyed a long career as a composer of choral music and solo repertoire, for both secular and religious settings. An award-winning composer, his works have been heard at Carnegie Hall, The White House, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in space on-board Space Shuttle Columbia (Mission STS-107) and in distinguished concert venues around the world. As a cantorial soloist and composer of contemporary Jewish music, Allan’s settings of prayers and related texts have become popular repertoire for Jewish services and other cultural events.