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Peter Gregson (born 1987) is a cellist and composer. He was born in Edinburgh and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Academy of Music. Gregson composed the score for the 2015 film A Little Chaos, marking his first major film scoring job.
Peter Gregson (born Edinburgh, Scotland 1987) is an award winning cellist and composer "working at the forefront of the new music scene" (The New Yorker) He has premiered works by composers including Tod Machover, Daníel Bjarnason, Joby Talbot, Gabriel Prokofiev, Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Steve Reich, Martin Suckling, Howard Goodall ...
Jun 22, 2021 · Scottish cellist and Deutsche Grammophon artist Peter Gregson talks about his upcoming album 'Patina', composing, and recent projects.
- Tell Me A Little About The Genesis of The Patina Project...
- How Did That Play Out in Compositional terms?
- How Much Do You Modify Your Music Once You Get Into The Recording Studio?
- Would This Project Translate Easily Into Live Performance?
- How Do You Approach Naming Tracks For These Abstract Projects?
It started with the idea that we live in an age where everything is kind of infinite and perfect and unchanging. Restrictions in the digital space are financial rather than physical: your inbox is never reallygoing to fill up, because if it does you simply pay for more storage. But in the physical world there’s a relationship between the use of an ...
I started wondering what might happen if you wrote a piece of music with the melody and harmony and bass and building blocks in place, and then had the melody disappear…Does the countermelody become the melody? Is the melody defined as the most present thing at the top of the tree? Or is it something that intrinsically embodies a melodic personalit...
The writing process is effectively done in the studio itself, rather than with me sitting in an ivory tower pondering the complex possibilities of a B flat! I’m fortunate in having a studio for my own writing and recording – it’s not a big symphony-hall affair, just a smallish space on the top floor of quite a big recording-studio that’s all set up...
Yes, it would absolutely work on stage – of all the things I’ve done, this recording is probably the one that would be simplest to translate. It’s basically for three string quartets, solo cello, piano and some synthesisers, and that’s it. Everything was captured live: none of those heavily processed sounds were done in post-production, which was q...
I really struggle with naming things. A friend and I have a running joke that the Farrow & Ball colour-chart contains some of the greatest urban poetry you can find: all these surreal combinations like ‘Elephant’s Breath’ and ‘Crimson Magnolia’! For this record we went to the opposite extreme: everything started life as hexadecimal colour-codes, li...
Nov 11, 2022 · Peter Gregson, renowned composer, cellist and Deutsche Grammophon recording artist, presents his sixth studio album, Quartets: Three and Four. The album is a follow-up from his 2016/2017 EPs Quartets: One and Quartets: Two , completing the conceptual cycle the composer set out for himself of creating a “quartet of quartets”.
Peter Gregson is a composer and cellist ‘working at the forefront of the new music scene’ (The New Yorker). His latest album, Recomposed by Peter Gregson: Bach – The Cello Suites, was released on Deutsche Grammophon in October 2018.
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22nd April 2019. Joffrey Ballet © Cody Choi. Composer and cellist Peter Gregson is "working at the forefront of the new music scene" ( The New Yorker ). Deutsche Grammophon released his latest album, Recomposed by Peter Gregson: Bach — The Cello Suites, in October 2018.
