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Peter Boyer has emerged in recent years as one of the most successful young American orchestral composers. His orchestral works have received over one hundred performances, by more than forty orchestras. He has conducted recordings of his music with two of the world’s finest orchestras, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia. In 2001, at age 31, he became one of the youngest composers in the world to have an entire disc of his music recorded by a world-class orchestra and distributed by an international record label. Boyer has won six national competitions, including two BMI Student Composer Awards, the First Music Carnegie Hall commission, and the Ithaca College Heckscher Prize. His major work Ellis Island: The Dream of America, which celebrates the American immigrant experience, has been his most successful composition to date. It is one of the most-performed large-scale American orchestral works of the last decade. Boyer recorded the work with the Philharmonia Orchestra and a cast of well-known actors, including Barry Bostwick, Olympia Dukakis, Bebe Neuwirth, and Eli Wallach. Boyer’s Ellis Island was nominated for a Grammy® Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition in 2005. In addition to his work for the concert hall, Boyer is active in the film and television industry. He has contributed orchestrations to films and television programs for 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Touchstone, Regency, MGM Animation, and ABC, supporting such composers as Michael Kamen, John Ottman, and Bill Conti. Boyer was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1970. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Rhode Island College, which awarded him an honorary Doctor of Music degree in 2004. He received Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from The Hartt School of the University of Hartford, which named him its 2002 Alumnus of the Year. Following his doctoral work, Boyer studied privately with John Corigliano in New York, then relocated to Los Angeles, studying film music with Elmer Bernstein and others at USC. Boyer holds the Smith Hobson Family Chair in Music and the rank of Associate Professor at Claremont Graduate University, where he has taught since 1996. More information can be found at www.PropulsiveMusic.com.
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