Peter-Anthony Togni

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Peter Anthony Togni

Peter-Anthony Togni (born September 12, 1959 in Pembroke , Ontario ) is a Canadian musician and composer .

Life

Togni grew up in Toronto , where he attended St. Michael Choir School . He later studied organ and composition at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver . He then studied organ and improvisation in Paris with the famous organist Jean Langlais . He continued his studies with Allain Gaussin at the Schola Cantorum , where he won first prize in composition.

Togni has been composing music for choir , orchestra , film and for individual instruments since 1989 . He gave solo concerts and performances with his Trio Sanctuary in Canada, USA, Europe and Asia. In addition, he has hosted programs on CBC / Radio Canada in Halifax for over twenty years . In 2006 his composition Illuminations , a concerto for bass clarinet and strings , was nominated for the Juno Award .

Since 2009 he has also been playing in a trio with Tom Roach, drums and Jamie Getti, double bass music from the fields of jazz , pop and classical music . In 2010 his work Lamentations of Jeremiah for bass clarinet and choir with bass clarinetist Jeff Reilly and the Elmer Iseler Singers was recorded by ECM . This work was nominated in 2011 for the East Coast Music Award and for the Juno Award.

Peter-Anthony Togni lives and works in Pembroke, Canada as a musician, composer and radio host. He regularly gives lectures and teaches organ and improvisation in master classes .

music

Peter-Anthony Tognis works are conceived spiritually. They radiate a meditative mood with atmospheric power. Due to their dissonances , clusters and minimal tone steps, his compositions are technically very demanding music with profound, timeless power without effects. Although Tognis music is sometimes reminiscent of the spirituality of old traditions of a Monteverdi or Bach , it is thoroughly modern and aesthetic. It is characterized by complexity and permeated by a deep sense of spirituality.

Discography (selection)

  • Sanctuary , XXIIIRecords, 2001
  • Refuge , Haussler Classics, 2003
  • The heart has its reasons , Warner Classics, 2005
  • Lamentations of Jeremiah , ECM, 2010

Works (selection)

Choir

  • When the Dawn Appears , SSAA * , 1989
  • Create in me a clean heart , SATB, 1990
  • Ave Verum SATB, 1994
  • Psalm 98 , SATB, 1997
  • Grandmother Moon - f. SATB double choir & soloists, 2001
  • Of the Fathers Love Begotten , SATB, 2003
  • Lamentations of Jeremiah , SATB and Bass Clarinet, 2007
  • Requiem of Light , mixed choir, 2009
  • Lux Aeterna , f. Gamelan & Six Voices, 2010

* S = soprano, A = alto, T = tenor, B = bass

Instrumental

  • Tenebrae Litanies , f. Streicher, 1991
  • Hymns of Heaven and Earth , string quartet (No. 1), 2001
  • Caspian Blue , f. Piano & string quartet, 2004
  • O Magnum Mysterium , Solo Piano, 2007
  • Personal Legend , String Quartet (No. 2), 2008
  • Seven Preludes , f. Organ, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter A. Togni
  2. ↑ The Lebrecht Weekly v. March 29, 2010
  3. ↑ Josephin Witschel in Magazin Klassik v. May 12, 2010
  4. ^ East Coast Connection v. November 30, 2009
  5. ↑ Chronicle Herald , 2005
personal data
SURNAME Togni, Peter-Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Togni, Peter Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Pembroke, Ontario