Kevin Allen

Kevin Allen has been highly regarded as a composer of opera, chamber and orchestral music. Mr. Allen has also developed a unique reputation as a composer of church music for the Roman Rite.

Mr. Allen’s works, sacred and secular, have been performed in churches and concert halls throughout the United States and Europe.

Mr. Allen is based in Chicago and is the founding director of the Collins Consort, American Composer’s Project, and the Schola Immaculata. He is also the choirmaster of the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Chicago.


“Enjoying the music of Kevin Allen means being comforted in a new land. For while his music is usually “relevant” to the listener (for much lack of a better term), his own personal language makes us sit up and listen as if we are hearing a new voice, a voice which calls us to think more honestly, more clearly, and all of this in the arms of true faith.”
– Timothy Woods, Lincoln Chamber Productions