Dustin Peters A Stone’s Throw
Performance date: October 15, 2022, 7:30 PM
Whittaker Locke, Conductor
Performance video: https://youtu.be/eSOsksTbbAA
Dustin Peters (Dora Mavor Moore Award-winner) is a Toronto-based composer
whose works range from concert and chamber music to film scores, orchestral works
and pieces for voice & dance. Born in British Columbia, Peters began music studies on
piano from the age of 5 and studied double-bass at the Mount Royal College
Conservatory and University of Ottawa before focusing on composition in 2002.
Peters has had the distinct pleasure of working with some of Canada’s finest
artists such as Kent Monkman (multidisciplinary artist), James Kudelka
(choreographer), the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sky Gilbert (playwright), Kevin
Mallon (Conductor/Violinist), Johannes Debus (Conductor) and Marion Newman
(Mezzo-Soprano). Peters’ concert works have been performed across Canada, USA
and in Great Britain, including chamber music at Harvard University and the opening
work for the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards Ceremony. Dustin’s film
scores have been heard in such international festivals as the Berlin International Film
Festival, ImagiNATIVE Media Arts Festival (Toronto), the Sao Paulo International
Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.
www.dpeterscomposer.com
Sarah Platt Warp Drive
Performance date: June 12, 2022, 3:00 PM
Whittaker Locke, Conductor
Performance: https://youtu.be/RqTbOftDn9c
Sarah Platt is an experienced violinist, composer, and teacher based in Asheville, North Carolina. After discovering her passion for writing and playing music through a high school music theory course, she went on to study both violin and composition at Georgia State University. There she studied violin with Tania Maxwell-Clements, and composition with Dr. Robert Scott Thompson before graduating in 2020. As a composer, she combines minimalist textures and ideas with neoromantic thematic material to create an impressionistic and programmatic style. As a teacher, Sarah maintains a studio of both adults and children at all levels of proficiency. Sarah’s core principles of teaching are parental involvement, aural skills, and critical listening and interpretation. Additionally, Sarah enjoys performing and volunteering for non-profit and community orchestras. She has performed with the Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra, the Atlanta Musicians Orchestra, and the Georgia State University Symphony Orchestra.
Simone Piriano Intermezzo
Performance date: April 24, 2022, 3:00 PM
Amy Wilson, Conductor
Performance: https://youtu.be/zew8LHhugqA
Simone Piraino is an Italian Composer, Musicologist and Events Manager. He was born in Palermo in 1985.
He graduate in 2007 with 110 and honors in the Bachelor of Arts of “Music Disciplines” and in 2010, also with 110 and honors, in the Master of Arts of “Musicology” always at the University of Palermo with the well-known musicologist Paolo Emilio Carapezza.
At the Conservatory of Palermo he graduated in 2019 with 110 honors and special mention with Sicilian composers Giovanni D’Aquila and Marco Betta in the Master of Music of “Composition” and in 2013 he take the 2nd Level Master Degree of “Organization and Management of Events”.
In 2012 he debut as a composer with “Abbraccio Infinito”: his poetics is based on simple but intense harmonies, with many diatonic clashes and a melodic lines tend to Endless. His music is published by Universal Edition (Wien), Stradivarius (Milan), Wicky Music (Milan) and Da Vinci Publishing (Osaka).
He has participated at many International Festival with over 50 first performances in Sicily (Palermo, Catania, Trapani, Agrigento), in Italy (Rome, Milan, Pisa, Lucca) and in the USA (New York), Russia (Petrozadovsk), England (London) and Lebanon (Beirut).
He take part at important events like the Rostrum of Composers, Season of Teatro Massimo, Weeks of New Music, Beirut Chants International Festival, Italian Make the music day, Windsor Academy Festival, Columbus Day, Silver Sound International Festival, Dionysian Segesta’s Theatre Festival, International Festival of Palermo Classica, Season of Lucca Classica, Gibellina’s Orestiads, Season of Conservatory of Rome, Palermo and many others.
In 2020 Piraino write official soundtrack for “The Soldier and the girl” a film by Jaykumar Shah (USA, 2020) and “Like falling leaves”, award-winning film by Vincenzo Totaro (Italy, 2020).
Parts of his Chamber music is published on two CDs: a monographic collection called “Verso la Luce” (Stradivarius, 2021) and a compilation of new compositions by many Sicilian composers called “Riflessi sonori: Italian contemporary piano trios” (Da Vinci Publishing, 2020).
His music is reviewed on Classics Voice, American Record Guide, Amadeus, GBOpera, Rivista Musica and from critics and musicologist like Renzo Cresti, Piero Mioli, Riccardo Viagrande, Andrea Milanesi and Giuseppe Pennisi.
He took part of over two hundred concert like Events Manager, Chief of Production, Artistic Director, Assistant of Production, Orchestra & Staff Manager, Assistant of Orchestra and other rules.
Now he work at the Teatro Massimo of Palermo (Italy) like Chief of Musical Archive, composer and arranger and, at Conservatory of Ribera (AG, Italy), he teach History of Music, Dramaturgy of Music, Bibliographic Research and Events Organization.
He has written many journalist article and six musicologist book (on Sergej Rachmaninov, New Italian’s composers, Meaning of Music and History of Music).