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Wayne Peterson (born September 3, 1927 in Albert Lea, MN) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, pianist and educator. Peterson earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota. He did advanced study on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, London, England. In 1960, he joined the faculty of San Francisco State University, reaching the rank of Professor of Music, from which he is now retired. In 1998 San Francisco State University, established the Wayne Peterson Prize in Music Composition. Peterson was awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Music for ''The Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark'', an orchestral work commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony and conducted by David Zinman. A controversy was involved in the Pulitzer Board's decision〔See the wiki article on Ralph Shapey for details.〕 and Peterson was reported to have the following comments about the prize years later: Winning the Pulitzer has meant nothing for the piece that won. Back when Blomstedt was at the San Francisco Symphony, David Zinman conducted it and did a beautiful job. But they never did it again and nobody else has ever played it. It’s a very difficult piece. I write chromatic music and chromatic music is not in vogue at the moment. I think that has not helped things. Peterson's other honors include a Composer's Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1986) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989–90). In 1990 he was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. ==Selected compositions== * ''Excursion'' violin and piano (2010) * ''Full Circle'' brass quintet plus percussion: 1 player (2009) * ''Trap Drum Fantasy'' for solo drum set (2008) * ''Scherzo'' for flute, clarinet, violin, cello (2008) * ''String Trio'' (2007) * ''Pas de Deux'' flute/alto flute & marimba/vibraphone (2006) * ''Quest'' flute/alto flute and piano (2002) * ''Nonet'' (2001) * ''Four Preludes for piano'' (2000) * ''Antiphonies'' for solo percussion: marimba/vibraphone (1999) * ''Colloquy'' flute and harp (1999) * ''Seven Debussy Songs'' seven Debussy songs transcribed for soprano or mezzo-soprano and small orchestra (1999) * ''Monarch of the Vine'' percussion quartet (1998) * ''Pop Sweet (String Quartet No. 3)'' (1998) * ''Peregrinations'' solo clarinet (1997) * ''Windup'' saxophone quartet (1997) * ''A Robert Herrick Motley'' five a cappella choruses, SATB, settings of Robert Herrick (poet) (1996, rev. 2000) * ''Theseus'' for chamber orchestra (1995–96) * ''Vicissitudes'' for six players (1995) * ''And the Winds Shall Blow'' a fantasy for saxophone quartet, winds and percussion (1994) * ''Duo for Violin and Piano'' (1993) * ''Diptych: Aubade, Odyssey'' for six players (1992) * ''String Quartet No. 2: Apparitions, Jazz Play'' (1991) * ''Four Spanish Songs (of Manuel de Falla)'' transcribed for woodwind quintet (1991) * ''The Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark'' for orchestra (1991) awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Music * ''Mallets Aforethought'' for percussion quartet (1990) * ''The Widening Gyre'' for orchestra (1990) * ''Sonatine of Maurice Ravel'' transcribed for woodwind quintet (1989) * ''Duodecaphony'' for viola (or violin) and cello (1988) * ''Trilogy'' for chamber orchestra (1988) * ''Labyrinth'' flute, clarinet, violin and piano (1987) * ''Transformations'' for chamber orchestra (1986) * ''Ariadne's Thread'' for harp and six players (1985) winner of the American Society of Harpists 1985 composition contest * ''String Quartet No. 1'' (1983) * ''Sextet'' (1982) * ''Doubles'' for 2 flutes, clarinet and bass clarinet (1982) * ''An Interrupted Serenade'' flute, harp and cello (1978) * ''Rhapsody for Cello and Piano'' (1976) * ''Encounters'' for eight players (1976) * ''Diatribe'' violin and piano (1975) * ''Capriccio'' flute and piano (1973) * ''Metamorphoses'' for wind quintet (1967) * ''an ee cummings cantata'' chorus SATB/piano or SATB/ mixed ensemble of 8 players (1964) * ''Free Variations'' for orchestra (1958) premiered and recorded by Antal Doráti and the Minnesota Orchestra * ''Can Death Be Sleep'' setting of John Keats for a cappella chorus, SATB (1955) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wayne Peterson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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