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Portrait Concert (Peter Kramer)

  • Soapbox Gallery 636 Dean Street Brooklyn, NY, 11238 United States (map)

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

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