Biography

Peter Gilbert's music has been performed in concerts, recitals and festivals across the country. His acoustic and electronic works have garnered recognition in the US and abroad. He is currently composing full-time thanks to an Arthur Whiting grant. He also teaches composition students privately and at Northeastern University. During the summers he directs a program for aspiring composers: The Young Composers Program. [FULL BIO]

Newest News:

• Hear as the Night Hollows was premiered by the incomparable clarinetist, Michael Norsworthy, and will be performed again at the Hydra concerts at the New College Theatre (Harvard) on May 12th and 13th. Many thanks to the people at the Barlow Endowment for sponsoring this piece. Another work, We felt the spirits so near, will also be played at the same concerts. Both works involve instruments and electronics and the latter work has them live.
• The Shana's Mango Experience (composer Lou Bunk and myself) played the Stockhausen tribute concert at Brandeis this May. Thanks to everyone who made it possible, with special props to Peter McMurray.
• A new album is now out and you should check it out. Sustenance has just been released by New Focus Recordings. It was a very interesting project pulling together a broad spectrum of new chamber music. But beyond just presenting a collection of well-played, well-recorded, interesting new work, we wanted to present a total experience - a curated event, so to speak. So we hit upon an architectural approach which resulted in, among other things, me writing interludes throughout the disc which serve both as connecting hallways in between the "rooms" as well as defining a kind-of gallery space in which the whole program can be exhibited. We had a lot of fun putting it together and we hope you enjoy it too!
• As a PS to the New Focus release I should add that Daniel Lippel, the guitarist on Sustenance, and I will start work on a collaboration over the spring and summer. Consider yourself warned.

Contact: gilbert@petergilbert.net