Alan Hacker

Alan Ray Hacker

He was born in Dorking, Surrey in 1938, the son of Kenneth and Sybil Hacker.^[1] After attending Dulwich College (from 1950 to 1955, under Stanley Wilson until the end of 1953), 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 1958 he joined the

Hacker also founded the Music Party in 1972, an organisation set up for the authentic performance of classical music. The later establishment of the Classical Orchestra in York was also a vehicle which promoted the performances of the classics on original instruments. Hacker also branched out into conducting opera, where he led performances of works from Monteverdi's Ulisse to Birtwistle's The Io Passion.^[3]

In the 1972–1973 academic year he became the Sir

Hacker was awarded the OBE for his services to music in 1988. In 1994, he was a guest on Desert Island Discs.

Personal life

Hacker was married three times. In 1959, he married Anna Maria Sroka, with whom he had two daughters, Katy and Sophie. His second marriage, to Karen Wynne Evans in 1976, produced a son, Alcuin. His third wife, Margaret Lee, survives him, as do his children and first two wives.

Publications

• Scores of Mozart Concerto and Quintet – 1972
• 1st ed. of reconstructed Mozart Concerto – 1973

See also

• List of clarinetists

References

External links

• Alan Hacker, Desert Island Discs, 17 April 1994