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PETER BOYER
(b. February 10, 1970)
Three Olympians
Three Olympians was commissioned by The Conductors Institute at Bard
College where Boyer had spent three summers studying as a student
(1992-94). While it was originally intended to serve as an educational piece
of sorts, requiring various techniques from the student conductors who
studied it, Three Olympians has turned into one of Boyer’s most successful
compositions. It has been recorded by both the London Symphony
Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra and is regularly featured in
both live performances and on SiriusXM’s Symphony Hall channel.
ClassicsToday.com writes that Three Olympians is impressive for, “the
sonorous inventiveness of its strings-only scoring, with ‘modernistic’
and textural effects such as snap pizzicatos, harmonics, and glissandos
perfectly integrated into Boyer’s own tonal idiom, as well as for the
distinction of its tunes, especially the lovely one in the central movement
depicting Aphrodite.”
TCHAIKOVSKY AND BARBER
American composer Peter Boyer is one
of a small handful who has made his BY THE NUMBERS
name both in the concert hall and on the Work Composed: 1999-2000;
big screen. In addition to being one of commissioned by The Conductors
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the most programmed living composers
with over 500 public performances by World Premiere: Numerous
more than 150 orchestras, he has worked conductors of The Conductors
on over 35 film projects including Institute at Bard College, July 10orchestrations
for
James
Newton 14, 2000
Howard (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay York Symphony Orchestra
– Part 2, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Premiere: This performance
Find Them 1 & 2, Red Sparrow), Thomas Estimated Duration: ca. 15 minutes
Newman (Skyfall, Finding Dory), Michael
Giacchino (the Oscar-winning Up, Star Trek, Jurassic World, Inside Out,
Cars 2, Mission: Impossible III), the late James Horner (The Amazing SpiderMan), and Alan Menken (Mirror Mirror).
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