photo by Jordan Silverman

The music of composer Troy Peters ranges from orchestral and chamber music to a large body of songs and an opera for hand puppets. His honors include the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from Meet the Composer and the Rockefeller Foundation. Among the groups who have commissioned his music are the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Tacoma Youth Symphony, the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, the Cascadian Chorale, Social Band, and the Vermont All State Music Festival.  He studied composition at The Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Pennsylvania, where his composition teachers included Ned Rorem, George Crumb, James Primosch, and Jay Reise.

WORKS

Orchestral and Band

• Between Hills Briefly Green (2003) for orchestra

• Cascade (1993) for orchestra

• Celebration (1990) for orchestra

• Concertino (1990) for piano and orchestra

• Morning Scenes (1988) for flute and string orchestra

• Samson Counterpoint (2001) for jazz quartet, brass quintet, and string orchestra

• Sparkle (2002) for concert band

• Whispers of Heavenly Death (1989) for orchestra

Choral and Vocal

• Filling Station (1992) for alto voice, violin and viola

• For Comrades and Lovers (1996) for chorus (SATB) and piano

• In the Beginning Was the Word (1989) for voice and organ

• An Instant in the Wind (1989) for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra

• Lament — 9/11/01 (2001) for voice and cello

• Pomes Penyeach (1990) for voice and piano

• Psalm 150 (2004) for chorus (SATB) and piano

• A Quarreling Pair (1989), an opera for hand puppets
  (two voices, violin and piano)

• Quis ut Deus (2004) for mezzo-soprano, chorus, and string orchestra

• Two Sonnets (2000) for a capella chorus (SATB)

• Sounds of the Winter (1989-90) for soprano and string quartet

• Vain World, Adieu (2004) for a capella chorus (SATB)

• plus numerous individual songs for voice and piano

Chamber and Instrumental

• Three Bagatelles (1993) for piano

• Brassbook (1991) for brass quintet

• Chagall (1992) for viola

• Colloquies (1984) for clarinet and bassoon

• Dance Mix (1998) for two percussionists and chamber ensemble

• Elegies for Paul (1985/1988) for violin

• Flood (1990) for two violas and cello

• The Golden Thread (1990) for viola, horn and harp

• Interlude (1994) for oboe and string trio

• Prayer and Fugue (1986) for string quartet

• Sonata (1989-90) for viola and piano

• Suite (1987) for cello

• Threnody (1987) for viola

• Three Vermont Scenes (2005) for flute, clarinet, and piano

• Wake Up! (1994) for solo percussionist