This Composer Brings Vinyl into the Concert Hall (ft. Charles Peck)

Charles Peck is a composer whose work has been called “daring” (Philadelphia Inquirer), “wild and shimmering” (Broad Street Review), and “substantial, personal, genuine” (Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music). His music, spanning a range of chamber and large ensembles, has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Albany and Columbus Symphonies, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the JACK Quartet, Sandbox Percussion, and Contemporaneous. Recently awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Peck has also received commissions from the Barlow Endowment, the McKnight Foundation, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Alarm Will Sound, the Bergamot Quartet, and Ji Hye Jung and has been named a winner of composition competitions with the New York Youth Symphony, ASCAP, the Lake George Music Festival, Frame Dance, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Symphony in C, the Tribeca New Music Festival, the Boston New Music Initiative, and the Foundation for Modern Music, among others. His music has been featured at a variety of venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival, the Mizzou International Composers Festival, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Composer Institute, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, Cultivate at Copland House, and the New Music Gathering. Peck is a member of the composition faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. 🌐 http://charlespeckmusic.com/ 🎼 “Vinyl,” for chamber orchestra: http://charlespeckmusic.com/portfolio/vinyl/ 🎼 “Splinter,” for piano trio: http://charlespeckmusic.com/portfolio/splinter/ 🎼 “Rift & Shade,” for string quartet: http://charlespeckmusic.com/portfolio/rift-shade/ 👨🏻‍🏫 BOOK a 1-on-1 meeting with me directly via this link if you're interested in having a lesson or consultation: https://calendly.com/saadhaddad 📰 Monthly NEWSLETTER that shares the latest news about my music and shows: https://saadnhaddad.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=d52b653fc543f4ca604265d53&id=70d2af18c6 🕒 Timestamps 00:33: Composition professor jobs 05:50 “Vinyl,” for chamber orchestra 09:20 Alarm Will Sound 11:39 Vinyl records 15:10 Georg Friedrich Haas 18:57 Minnesota Orchestra 22:27 My view on the orchestra 25:53 Sul ponticello 27:52 Conductors 31:09 “Splinter,” for piano trio 32:28 Bluegrass fiddle technique 35:17 Parallel fifths 40:48 Festivals 43:17 Repurposing music 46:19 “Rift and Shade,” for string quartet 48:43 Debussy, Ravel 52:45 Competitions