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Peter Winkler, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies;
Composition, Theory and Popular Music
M.F.A., Princeton University, 1967
Email Peter Winkler at: Peter.Winkler[at]stonybrook.edu
Peter Winkler studied with Earl Kim at Princeton and as a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. While a student in the mid-1960's he was "fatally" seduced by the music of the Beatles and Motown, and began a life-long creative and scholarly involvement with popular music. His compositions include both concert works and music for the theater, and many of his pieces explore connections between popular and classical idioms. In 1978, his Symphony was premiered at the grand opening of the Staller Center at Stony Brook. Recent works include "A Midsummer Overture" for orchestra, commissioned for the 20th anniversary of Midsummer Musical Retreat in Washington, "Partita" for Baroque ensemble, commissioned and performed by the Stony Brook Baroque Players conducted by Arthur Haas, "Requiem Aeternam" for chorus, in memory of the victims of September 11, 2001: "Out!" a musical for the Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus (book and lyrics by Winston Clark), "Nine Waltzes", commissioned by the Guild Trio, and "Serenade",commissioned by the Kammergild Chamber Orchestra.The history and theory of popular music are a focus of Mr. Winkler's research and teaching; he is one of the founding members of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and has published several papers on popular music. As a pianist, he appears with Rhoda Levine's opera improvisation group, Play It By Ear, and with his wife, violinist Dorothea Cook, in the duo Silken Rags.More Information
Recent Works:
- "A Midsummer Overture" (2002) for Orchestra. Commissioned by the Midsummer Musical Retreat. Premiere: Midsummer Musical Retreat Orchestra, cond. Roupen Shakarian, Cordiner Hall, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA., Aug. 3, 2002.
- "Partita " (Baroque Ensemble) (2001) commissioned by the Stony Brook Baroque Ensemble, Arthur Haas, director. Premiered May 5, 2001.
- "Requiem Aeternam" (in memory of the victims of September 11, 2001) Chorus or vocal ensemble, SATB Premieres: (vocal quartet): Stony Brook, N.Y., October 18, 2001. (chorus): The Midsummer Musical Retreat Chorus, Robert Scandtrett, conductor, Cordiner Hall, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA., Aug. 3, 2001.
- "Returning to the Root" (2000) (horn and piano) commissioned by Paul Basler.
- "Serenade" for String Orchestra, commissioned by the Kammergild Chamber Orchestra. Premiere: St. Louis, April 1998. Performed by Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Lgnat Solzhenitsyn, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia. Feb. 28, 2000; Centennial Hall, Haverford, Pa. Feb. 29.
- Serenade commissioned by the Kammergild Chamber Orchestra. Premiere: St. Louis, April, 1998
- Nine Waltzes commissioned by the Guild Trio. Premiere: Stony Brook, April 10, 1997. New York premiere: Danny and Sylvia Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College, June 8, 1997
- Out! A 2-act musical, commissioned by the Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus. The text, by Winston Clark, is based on personal experiences of members of the chorus and their families. Premiere: Shubert Theater, New Haven, CT., March 22, 1997
- Saboreando el Gusto Cubano (violin, piano, Latin percussion) commissioned for the First Hemispheric Conference,
- International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Havana, Cuba, Oct. 6, 1994
- Ten Songs for Tingle-Tangle: A Wedekind Cabaret (Frank Wedekind, trans. Eric Bentley. Music by William Bolcom, Arnold Black, and Peter Winkler). Produced at The Ballroom, New York City, July 1994. Director: Isaiah Sheffer
- Songs and incidental music for Blood Wedding (Federico Garcia Lorca) and The Tempest (William Shakespeare), Stony Brook University Theater, 1992 and 1994
- Songs for The Good Woman of Szechuan (Berthold Brecht, trans. Eric Bentley) Hunter College Playhouse, 1991
- Waterborne (violin and tape) Premiere: Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, March 1991. New York premiere: Eclectix, CAMI Hall, May 1996
- "Solitaire" for solo clarinet. Phillip Rehfeldt, clarinet. (Advance Recordings FGR-81, (2001).
- "Out!" Original Cast Recording. The Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus, Winston Clark, conductor. Nutmeg Records CD 2001 (1998)
- Solitaire for solo clarinet. Michael Lowenstern, bass clarinet. Spasm (New World Records CD 80468-2, 1996)
- "Tamara, Queen of the Nile" (song, lyrics by Ernst Muller, from the revue Professionally Speaking,1986) Joan Morris and William Bolcom. (Lime Jello - An American Cabaret RCA AM4-5830, 1986)
- Member of Play It By Ear, an opera improvisation company. Rhoda Levine, artistic director. For information call 212 330 7790
- "Randy Newman's Americana", in Middleton, Richard, ed. Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music, p. 27-57 (Oxford University Press, 2000) (originally published in Popular Music Vol. 7 No. 1, fall 1988, pp. 1-26.
- "Writing Ghost Notes: The Poetics and Politics of Transcription" in Schwartz, David, and Anahid Kassabian, ed.
- Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture (University of Virginia Press, 1997).
- "In Search of Yaa Amponsah"in Straw, Will, ed. Popular Music - Style and Identity (Montreal, Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 1995)
- Editor, Journal of Popular Music Studies, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch, 1992-95 (Vol. 6, 7, 8)