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Peter Martin
Peter Martin is a percussionist specializing in contemporary solo and chamber music. He has been a featured artist at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Round Top Festival, Jeju Summer Music Festival of Korea, Looptopia Festival, Soundfield Festival, Rush Hour Concert Series, Break the Box Series, and the Percussive Arts Society International Convention amongst others. He was the first prizewinner at the 2003 Percussive Arts Society International Marimba Competition.
Peter is a member of the critically acclaimed ensemble Third Coast Percussion and percussionist with the Chicago based new music group Ensemble Dal Niente. As a freelance musician, he has performed with the Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Opera Moda, Ensemble Noamnesia, the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Philharmonic, the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, the Thodos Dance Company, the Sonic Inertia Performance Group, the Longmount Symphony Orchestra, the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, and was a founding member of the Exit 9 percussion group.
A strong advocate for contemporary music, Peter has been involved with the commissioning and premiere performances of dozens of works for percussion. He has collaborated with notable 21st Century composers including Lukas Ligeti, Christopher Adler, Anthony Pateras, Mathew Barnsen, Alejandro Viñao, Kirsten Broberg, Ted Hearne, David Little, and Marcos Balter.
Peter is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Percussion Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. He has previously served as a percussion instructor at the Northwestern University School of Music, Trinity International University, and the National High School Music Institute. A passionate educator at all levels, he has worked with Urban Gateways and the University of Chicago's CONNECT outreach programs in Chicago as well as the New Jersey Chapter of the Young Audiences organization in presenting educational performances to public schools across the Midwest and Northeast U.S.
In high demand as a guest clinician and lecturer in the areas of chamber and solo percussion, Peter has appeared at music schools worldwide including the Eastman School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, University of North Texas, University of Central Florida, Seoul National University, St. Cloud State University, Colorado State University, and Iowa State University. Peter is an artist/endorser for Vic Firth Drumsticks and Mallets and Pearl / Adams Musical Instruments.
Peter is pursuing his Doctor of Music degree and holds a M.M. in Percussion Performance and Literature from the Northwestern University School of Music studying with world-renowned percussion soloist Michael Burritt, Chicago Symphony Orchestra percussionist James Ross, and Grammy Award winning drummer Paul Wertico. Peter has also studied with marimba virtuoso She-e Wu and Leigh Howard Stevens.
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