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GEOFFREY PETERSON studied
composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Richard Hoffmann and
Dennis Eberhard, and with Donald Erb at the Cleveland Institute of Music,
where he received his bachelor of music degree. His works have been
performed at venues throughout the United States and Europe including the
Curtis Institute of Music, University of Miami, Northwestern University,
Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia Music School Settlement,
Fleisher Art Memorial, Cleveland Museum of Art, Beck Center for the Arts,
and the San Salvatore Church in Prague.
Recent works have included incidental music for the play Vinegar Tom produced at DePaul University, and a piano concerto, The Edmund Fitzgerald, to be premiered by the Sault Saint Marie Symphony. His Sonata for Solo Oboe is published by Theodore Presser Company and has been performed by the principal oboists of the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, and the New World Symphony, and was featured at an International Double Reed Society annual conference. Peterson was awarded a grant through the American Composers Forum Community Partners program to write The Living Cathedral, a cantata for chorus, organ and brass quintet, and he was a recipient of an ASCAP Plus award in both 2003 and 2004. He recently participated in a reading session with the critically acclaimed new music ensemble Orchestra 2001. He is also music director and composer-in-residence of The Garden Church in suburban Philadelphia and proprietor of Camera-Ready Music Engraving, whose clients have included G. Schirmer, Theodore Presser Company, Carl Fischer, ECS Publishing, and Peermusic Classical. He received the Music Publishers’ Association Paul Revere Award for music engraving in 2004. For further information, please contact the composer at:
Geoffrey Peterson, 85 S. Lansdowne Ave.
#2, Lansdowne, PA 19050
phone & fax: 610-623-8369, cell:
610-564-6064
camerareadymusic@earthlink.net |
Music by Geoffrey Peterson available from
TENUTO
PUBLICATIONS:
494-02549 HOMAGE TO DONALD ERB for solo Bass Clarinet ...
6.95 new!
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to see a sample of the first half-page
494-02666 HOMAGE TO DONALD ERB for solo Bassoon
...
6.95 new!
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here to see a sample of the first half-page
listen to a complete performance (4MB
mp3 clip) by bassoonist Jonathan Westerling
"Recitalists may want to add
Homage to Donald Erb by Geoffrey Peterson to their repertoire. Peterson
plays with dynamics and articulation to good effect. Homage isn't tonal
but has lovely melodic shapes, and repeated phrases and articulated passages
create unity in this short work."
–
Monica Leiher, Music Teacher magazine (UK), July 2004
All prices
subject to change.
Last updated April 23, 2006.
