Friday, December 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Peter Kramer is a composer, keyboardist and educator based in New York City. He is the featured composer and performer, alongside violinist Pala Garcia, on a forthcoming portrait album of violin and piano works projected for release on New Focus Recordings in 2025. Their project is the recipient of a 2021 recording grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Additionally, he will be releasing an album of solos, duos and trios for winds, strings, piano and guitar in 2025. His music was recently featured on the Northwestern University New Music Conference NUNC! (2023) where he performed his composition entitled Copse of Trees with bassoonist Ben Roidl-Ward.
Peter was awarded the Kanter Prize (2020) by the Mivos Quartet for his work Three Fragments, and is also the recipient of the Walter E. Aschaffenburg Prize in Composition, the Earl L. Russel Award in Historical Performance, and the Shansi Prize from the Oberlin Conservatory. He was invited to join the Loretto Project as a composer fellow in its 2017 cohort, and has also spent time at the Banff Center as an artist in residence. Apart from composition, Peter is passionate about teaching private piano lessons in New York City and tutoring English and music at Lehmann College (CUNY). He has been playing guitar since the age of ten with a focus on American blues and folk music.
Performers: Zachary Good, clarinet; Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon; Miranda Cuckson, violin; John Popham, cello; Peter Kramer, piano
PROGRAM
Copse of Trees (2023)
Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon; Peter Kramer, piano
Lethe (2024)
Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon
In Miniature (2019)
John Popham, cello; Peter Kramer, piano
Limbo Tunes (2023)
Movement 1: Eclogue
Movement 2: Background Landscape
John Popham, cello; Peter Kramer, piano
Passus (2015)
Zachary Good, clarinet; Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon
Two Hymn Fragments (2024)
Movement 1: Hymn Fragment I
Movement 2: Hymn Fragment II
Miranda Cuckson, violin; Peter Kramer, piano
Ghost Hymns (2024)
Zachary Good, clarinet; Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon; Peter Kramer, piano
Heights (2018)
Zachary Good, clarinet
https://peterkramermusic.wordpress.com/
