P e t e r V u k m i r o v i c S t e v e n s
Composer/Pianist
petervstevens@gmail.com
Summary
Composer/Performer
Seattle Pianist Collective: Composer, pianist and co-director, 2006 - present
Chamber Music Seattle: Composer, pianist and co-director, 2006 - present
Education
Private Composition: 2006 - 2009, Dr. Samuel Jones, Dean at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. (Emeritus) Composer-in-Residence at Seattle Symphony
B.M. in Composition and Piano Performance: 2006 graduate, Bern Herbolsheimer (composition and piano), Roger Nelson (piano) and Jarrad Powell (theory), Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, Washington
Private Composition, Piano Performance and Music Theory: 2002 - 2004, David Mahler, Seattle, Washington
Private Composition, Piano Performance and Music Theory: 2000 - 2001, Bodhan Bubak, Prague, Czech Republic
Compositions
Music for solo piano, solo instruments and duets, a variety of chamber music groups, percussion ensembles, symphony orchestra and electronic media
Solo Piano
Lodestar (2009)
King Rat (2008)
Darjeeling Clocktower Variations (2007)
Ten Preludes (2006)
Piano and Cello
Autonomy (2009)
Equus (2008)
Piano and Voice
Seven Haitian Voodoo Songs for piano and soprano voice (2005)
Two Pianos and Percussion
Idiot With Prey, (2005)
SATB Choir
Solemn Music, text by Thomas Merton (2008)
Solo Cello
August Ruins 1 - VI (2010)
String Quartet
Panacea (2006)
Mixed Chamber
Boh Predvichniy (2008)
Asylum (2007)
Destructive Element Immerse (2005)
Percussion Ensemble
L’Ombre de l’Homme à Lomé (2005)
Symphony Orchestra
A Ukrainian Christmas I - III (2009)
Electronic
Nine Pieces for Solo Piano and Buddha Machine (2010)
Zenpop (2008)
Audio Examples at:
www.societyofcomposers.org/user/peterv.stevens.html
Professional Activities
Solo and Chamber Performer - 2000 - present
Seattle Pianist Collective - Founded in 2006, the SPC present programs featuring music for solo piano and piano with chamber ensemble. Programs have featured a variety of themes including, the music of Olivier Messiaen, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, a variety of Russian composers, Day of the Dead celebrations amongst many others. The group also commission and performs new works.
Awarded an Allied Arts Foundation Grant for 2008 performances.
Chamber Music Seattle - Founded in 2006, is a piano/cello duet featuring Peter Vukmirovic Stevens (piano) and Don Larson (cello) that perform programs spanning periods from the baroque to modern eras. CMS also debut new works and collaborate with other performers and ensembles.
Other Projects/Collaborations
Nine Pieces for Solo Piano and Buddha Machine - Collaboration with China-based music duo FM3, Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian,
featuring work for solo piano and electronics (2010)
Parents - Pianist for a mutli-media performance with composer Aaron Grad and multi-media artist Peter Becker Nelson presented at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington (2010)
Villains - Original Score for a Time Warner Inc. commercial airing on Ohio television (2007)
First place winner in 2007 Cincinnati advertisers awards
Asylum - Original mixed chamber work featuring piccolo in collaboration with Dr. Zart Dombourian-Eby, principle piccoloist at Seattle Symphony (2007)
Men in Dance Festival - Original solo piano work for dance choreography, Seattle, Washington (2006)
Professional Affiliations
American Music Center
ASCAP
Society of Composers
Discography
Seattle Pianist Collective (One), Corbeau Music, www.corbeaumusic.com (2009)
Other Professional Experience
Private piano and theory instructor 2004 - present
French Instructor for levels I-IV at Seattle Central Community College 2004 - present
Statements
Mr. Stevens is "an extremely talented young composer, whose penchant for creating works with strong mood and personality is reminiscent of the music of Olivier Messiaen. Peter has developed his own voice, however, which is especially remarkable for its ability to use diatonic materials in non-functional ways. His new three-movement work based on Ukrainian Christmas Carols is a strong piece, at once accessible, communicative, and challengingly serious. It should find a ready place on more thoughtful seasonal programs."
Dr. Samuel Jones
--Dean at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. (Emeritus)
Composer in Residence at Seattle Symphony.
Found object artists are artists who work with the flotsam and jetsam of the world, a coyote skeleton by the side of a lake, a car spring in an auto salvage yard. Peter V. Stevens is a found artist of music. In the pounding of a foundry or the pealing of a temple bell in Bhutan, he finds music that he then translates so that we can hear what he hears. And what he hears is beautiful, so beautiful, in fact, that I rank him as one of the country's best young composers.
Samuel Jay Keyser
--Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) Phonology, Lexical Theory, Poetics at MIT