Alan is a film composer living in Los Angeles, California.

Recently Alan scored “An American Crime”, starring Academy Award nominees Ellen Page, Catherine Keener  and James Franco, directed by Tommy O’Haver. The film received its World Premiere at the 2007 Sundance film festival. Following its US release on Showtime, Catherine Keener was nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Emmy for Best Actress for the film.

Alan also recently scored 'Jerusalema', for director Ralph ZIman (CNN clip). The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2008, and was selected as South Africa's official submission for the 2009 Oscars. Alan's music also features in 'This Is Not A Test', starring Hill Harper, Tom Arnold and Robinne Lee, and directed by Chris Angel, that premieres on Showtime in May 2009. The first wildlife film Alan has scored, "Swamp Troop" for National Geographic, recently won Best Newcomer award at Jackson Hole, the world's premiere wildlife film festival.

Alan Lazar has written music for more than 30 feature films and TV programs, including festival successes like “Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss”, and Emmy award winning “Sex and the City”. His diverse composing projects include work from HBO, Miramax, Columbia Tristar, Time Inc, PBS, National Geographic, Coca Cola and Fox. Alan writes theme music for e.tv and their 24 hour new network, which recently celebrated their 10th anniversary.

Alan also moonlights as a director. His feature, ‘Purpose' , starring Mia Farrow, Paul Reiser, Peter Coyote, Hal Holbrook, John Light and Jeffrey Donovan,  was sold for worldwide distribution to Hollywood mini-major Lakeshore Entertainment. It continues to screen extensively on Showtime and other US networks.

Born in South Africa, Alan was a child prodigy who wrote arrangements for and conducted the National Symphony Orchestra. He enjoyed enormous success with the multiracial group, Mango Groove. The band received  platinum album sales awards and multiple other industry awards.

Their live performances included the Freddie Mercury Memorial Concert in London,  the Quincy Jones night at the Montreux Jazz Festival, a special gala performance with the Hong Kong Ballet, SOS Racism in Paris, concerts with Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones in Africa and a special performance at the inauguration of Nelson Mandela. Their success pinnacled with the no.1 hit, “We Are Waiting”, composed for the release of Nelson Mandela, and played by ABC as he took his first steps into freedom.

Alan penned the 1996 South African Song of the Year, “African Dream”, also a hit in Europe, recently performed at the inauguration of South Africa’s second democratic president. The song is referred to as the ‘unofficial national anthem’ by the South African press, and was nominated for ‘Song of the Decade’.

Leaving the band in 1994, he completed an MFA at USC Film School as a Fulbright scholar, and won a Cine Eagle award.

Alan is a graduate of Trinity College of Music and the USC School of Cinema Television. He has degrees in computer science, political studies and film-making.  He works in a digital studio in West Los Angeles, complete with live room.