Mark Petering

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Mark D. Petering (* 1973 in Milwaukee / Wisconsin ) is an American composer and music teacher.

Petering attended Luther College and studied at Bowling Green State University and the University of Minnesota . His teachers included Samuel Adler , Burton Beerman , Wallace Depue , John W. Downey , Marilyn Shrude, and Judith Lang Zaimont . His dissertation was a bayan concert for the Moldovan accordionist Stas Venglevski . At the Aspen Music Festival he took lessons from George Tsontakis . Since 2005 he has been the director of music theory, composition and music technology at Carthage College .

Petering's compositions, which, apart from the USA, became known mainly in Eastern Europe and Turkey, were among others. a. Performed by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra , the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra , the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra . In 2003 he received the Swan Composer Prize for The Swimming Pool . In the same year he won the Music Festival of the Hamptons Composition Contest with the orchestral piece Train & Tower , which was performed in July of that year on the festival grounds in Bridgehampton under the direction of conductor Lukas Foss and with the participation of a train on the Long Island Rail Road . He has received other awards from ASCAP , the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts .

Works

  • Train & Tower (after Sibelius ) for orchestra
  • Fanfare & Reflection (after Ravel ) for orchestra
  • Lake Summit (after Stravinsky ) for orchestra
  • Three Psalms - Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra
  • Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra
  • Concerto for Bayan and Orchestra
  • Symphony No. 1
  • Symphony No. 2
  • Lamentations for orchestra
  • Quilters' Psalm for String Orchestra
  • The Tomten & the Fox for orchestra
  • Sacred Song for orchestra
  • The Swimming Pool for wind ensemble or orchestra
  • String Quartet No. 1
  • 3 Pieces for Mixed Trio
  • Prelude for Kakadu Rain for flute or violin, cello and piano
  • Vitruvian Man for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
  • River Silver for clarinet, flute or violin and piano
  • 5 Pieces for Wind Quintet
  • Duo for violin
  • Madhouse for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
  • In Memoriam for trumpet and piano
  • Three pieces for piano
  • Oasis de lumière for solo violin
  • Bachiana for cello or bassoon solo
  • Life Cacle , electro-acoustic music
  • Life Cycle II , electroacoustic music
  • Digital muse
  • Digital Muse II
  • Zabriskie Point: The Gen X River of Retrospective , electroacoustic music
  • Ten Years Apprenticeship in Fantasy for mezzo-soprano
  • Virginia Dreams for soprano and piano
  • Impossible Hues for alto and clarinet
  • Alleluia for mixed choir
  • Ajax to his Sword for mixed orchestra
  • Dance Suite for Piano

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personal data
SURNAME Petering, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petering, Mark D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee