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Peter Gilbert (composer)

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Peter Gilbert
Born (1975-12-23) December 23, 1975 (age 48)
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Composer and teacher of music composition
Websitewww.petergilbert.net

Peter Gilbert (born December 23, 1975, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States) is an American composer and teacher of music composition.

Biography

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Gilbert did his doctorate in composition at Harvard University with Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky as well as Joshua Fineberg and Hans Tutschku and worked with Chaya Czernowin, Helmut Lachenmann and Magnus Lindberg. He also studied at Illinois Wesleyan University with David Vayo and at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Margaret Brouwer.

He has taught at Wellesley College, Northeastern University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University, UMass-Dartmouth and Harvard University. In 2003 he founded the Cleveland Institute of Music's summer composition course, the Young Composers Program at CIM with Orianna Webb. They served as artistic directors and faculty until 2010. Since 2010, Gilbert has been one of the directors of the composition program at the University of New Mexico.[1] Gilbert is a winner of the Barlow Prize,[2] the Look and Listen Prize[3] and a Siemens Music Foundation grant.[4]

Gilbert collaborates frequently with his wife, German composer Karola Obermueller. Their multi-media, live-electronic chamber opera dreimaldrei gleich unendlich has been performed in Germany and the United States, including a premiere as part of the Musik der Jahrhunderte festival in Stuttgart. A prize-winner at the National Opera Association awards, Dreimaldrei was selected for the Imagining Media exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of ZKM.[5] They have created multiple interactive installation pieces including Listening to Mountains,[1] and An Overlapping of Spaces, which combined a series of hanging surround-sound speaker arrays with unique iPod-based audience-interactivity. It was featured as a center-piece of the Perceiving Space in Art Gallery at the Davis Museum (Wellesley College) from 2008 to 2010 where it was chosen early on as an Artwork of the Month.[6] They also worked together on Robert S., an opera with Theater Bonn.[7][8] Gilbert and Obermueller teach together at the University of New Mexico and run the John Donald Robb Composers Symposium.[9]

Recordings

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The first feature release of Gilbert's music was from New Focus Recordings entitled The Bold Arch of Undreamt Bridges. The May/June 2011 American Record Guide wrote of it: "Peter Gilbert's program is filled with the ghosts of sounds. He captures a dark, yet hopeful wonder through variation in color, mood, and the semblance of melodies. ...Everything here has the same kind of atmospheric, chromatic language with an absence of extreme dissonance. Resolutions are continually hidden just below the top layer of sound, and slow shifts in color are constantly changing the soundscape gradually."[10] He has works on the following CDs:

  • The Bold Arch of Undreamt Bridges[10]
  • Resonance, Daniel Lippel[11]
  • Sustenance, Daniel Lippel, Flexible Music, et al.[12]
  • Deviation, Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble[13]
  • Third Practice[14]
  • Walk in Beauty, Emanuele Arciuli[15]
  • Impermanence, Lorelei Ensemble[16]

He has also served as a producer for several New Focus Recordings releases.[17]

Writings

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Gilbert has written a book called The Listen with Christopher Jon Honett which explores nine different experiences listening to nine extraordinary pieces of contemporary repertoire. Each piece inspires its own journey through idiosyncratic philosophical musings on creativity, listening and their connections to living.[18] Trevor Hunter says of it: "What Honett and Gilbert are really engaging in here is a new type of criticism. ...The book outright doesn't accept the rarely spoken but widely held assumption that a high-ish level of musical training is needed to appreciate these works. But why it's subversive is that this completely undercuts the just-as-widely held and far-more-frequently spoken accusations that new music is abstrusely elitist, forever trapped in some sort of academic iron lung."[19] He has also written for the online music journal Zeitschichten.[20]

Listening

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  • Revealing Distant Cities[21]
  • Trailer for Dreimaldrei Gleich Unendlich[22]
  • Songs from the Tundra[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Composers – Lorelei Ensemble". Loreleiensemble.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  2. ^ "BYU's Barlow Endowment names winning composers for 2007". News.byu.edu. 24 September 2007. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  3. ^ "competition « Look & Listen". Lookandlisten.org. 15 October 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Grants-in-Aid 2011: Detail view - Ernst von Siemens Foundation for Music". Evs-musikstiftung.ch. 29 October 2011. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Dreimaldrei gleich unendlich | ZKM Mobile Site". At.zkm.de. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  6. ^ "UNM Department of Music: Faculty - Gilbert". Music.unm.edu. 12 November 2012. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  7. ^ "Frauen für die Kurzoper (Archiv)". Deutschlandfunk.de. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  8. ^ "Nichts als Verzweiflung | GA-Bonn". General-anzeiger-bonn.de. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  9. ^ "The 2013 UNM John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium". KUNM. 22 March 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  10. ^ a b "Peter Gilbert: The Bold Arch of Undreamt Bridges". New Focus Recordings. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  11. ^ "Dan Lippel: Resonance". New Focus Recordings. 14 February 2005. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  12. ^ "Dan Lippel, Sustenance". New Focus Recordings. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  13. ^ "GM 2079 - Deviation". Gmrecordings.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  14. ^ "Classical Music Label". Centaur Records. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  15. ^ "Walk in Beauty, Arciuli". Innova. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  16. ^ "Impermanence, Lorelei". Sono Luminus. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  17. ^ "About | Pages". New Focus Recordings. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  18. ^ "Peter Gilbert". Archived from the original on 6 January 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  19. ^ Hunter, Trevor (25 June 2009). "Getting Inside The Listen". NewMusicBox. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  20. ^ "Musica Globalista: the farewell essay by Simon Reynolds, 'Here Comes Everything' | Beyond The Beyond". Wired.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  21. ^ "Gilbert: "Revealing Distant Cities"". YouTube. 5 February 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  22. ^ "YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  23. ^ "Songs from the Tundra on Vimeo". Vimeo.com. 15 November 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
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