Peter Edwards studied at Northwestern University in Chicago and the University of California, San Diego, where he received his doctorate in music. His principle composition teachers were Chaya Czernowin and Nicolaus A. Huber. His works have been performed throughout the world by many different ensembles. He is the recipient of a number of awards and grants in composition. He remains active as a composer, particularly in Europe and America.
Peter Ivan Edwards received a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University and completed his graduate studies in music composition at the University of California, San Diego, where his principal composition teacher was Chaya Czernowin. He was also a visiting scholar at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany, where he studied with Nicolaus A. Huber.
His music has been performed throughout the world at leading contemporary music festivals including Darmstadt Ferienkurse für neue Musik (Germany), the MATA Festival (NYC), and the June in Buffalo Festival (New York) by Ensemble SurPlus, Ensemble Chronophonie, the Mutare Ensemble, the Noise Ensemble, among others. He has received commissions for a broad range of ensembles - from orchestra to solo kayageum (Korean traditional string instrument). Some of his works are written for particular performance spaces such as his recent Scenarios, written for the Wechselraum BDA (Stuttgart), an exhibition space with moveable walls.
His current project is an 80-minute collaborative composition written with six other composers in conjunction with the Ensemble Ascolta (Stuttgart) for premiere at the 2008 Donaueschingen Festival (Germany) and Wien Modern Festival (Austria).
He has presented on his works as a conference participant or guest speaker at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, the University of Suwon in South Korea, and California State University-Northridge.
Edwards is the recipient of a DAAD Grant, three ASCAP Standard Awards, 3rd Prize in the Deutscher Studienpreis 2002, two Composer Assistance Grants from the American Music Center, and was a winner of the Klangraum-Raumklang competition hosted by the 2002 Internationale Ferienkurse für neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany.
As a scholar, he writes on issues of contemporary music composition and analysis. An article on the late work of Italian composer Luigi Nono is forthcoming in Perspectives of New Music. In addition, an article on music theory pedagogy is forthcoming in Experiments in Pedagogy, published by the National University of Singapore.
Contact Peter Ivan Edwards via email at muspie@nus.edu.sg.
Updated on 01/06/2009
