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Knell, Peter (b. 1970, Pasadena,
California). American composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works
that have been successfully performed in the Americas and abroad, and that have
won him numerous awards.
Mr. Knell received his BA
from Princeton University, his MMus from the Juilliard School and his DMA from
the University of Texas at Austin. His principal teachers were David Diamond, Donald
Grantham and Dan Welcher.
He has received awards in
numerous national and international competitions, including First prizes in the
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival International Composers
Competition, the Indiana State University Contemporary Music
Festival/Louisville Orchestra Competition and the Omaha Symphony Guild
International New Music Competition.
He has also received Second
prizes in the Fourth International Witold Lutoslawski Composers Competition,
the First International Composers Competition (In Memoriam Zoltán Kodály) and
the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composers Competition.
He has received two ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers awards, a BMI Student Composer Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Renée B. Fisher Composer Award and grants from from Meet the Composer and the Paloheimo Foundation. He has also received commissions from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, the Dale Warland Singers, the Guild Trio, the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra, Southwest Chamber Music, the Stern-Schoenhals Duo, the Virginia Music Teachers Association, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
The Hungarian Radio
Orchestra and the Louisville Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of Memphis,
Oakland, Omaha, Richmond, and Winnipeg have performed his orchestral music
throughout Europe and North America. The Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the
Continuum Ensemble (UK), Ensemble Musicattuale (Italy), the Left Coast Chamber
Ensemble, the Onyx String Quartet, the Poné Ensemble, Southwest Chamber Music,
the Stern-Schoenhals Duo, and the Verdi Quartett have performed his chamber
music.
His works have been
broadcast nationally in Canada and Hungary, statewide on Nebraska Public Radio
and on stations in Austin, Charlottesville (Virginia), Helsinki, Los Angeles,
Oakland, Omaha, Richmond, San Diego, and San Francisco.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: KNELL1@aol.com
Street address: Mr. Peter Knell, 1215 Hillcrest Ave., Pasadena, CA
91106, USA
Telephone: 626 564 1087
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: King Lear (incidental music, play by
William Shakespeare), flute (+ piccolo, bass flute), double bass, prepared
piano, percussion, tape, live electronics, 1996; Tell (mini-opera, libretto by Joseph Goodrich), 3 sopranos, actor,
piano, 2002
ORCHESTRAL: ‘…the weakening eye of day’, large
orchestra, 1994; Infernal Whispers,
wind orchestra, 1996; Sinfonietta,
small orchestra, 1996; Virvatuli,
1997; Night Incantation, 1998; Fanfares and Fantasies, 1999; Lines/Angles, 2001
CHAMBER MUSIC: Sonata, viola, piano, 1992; Blues, violin, piano, 1993; Elegy, French horn, 2 trumpets,
trombone, tuba, 1993; String Quartet No. 1, 1994; Epigrams, double bass, 1995; Vortex,
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 1995; Elegy, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 1995; Paraphrase, string quartet, 1996; Rhapsody, cello, 1997; Sonata, tenor saxophone, piano, 1998; Haiku, flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin,
viola, cello, piano, 1999; Piano Trio No. 1, violin, cello, piano, 1999; Seven Last Words, violin, 2000; Dialogues, viola, piano, 2001;
Rhythm Changes, violin, piano, 2002
CHORAL: Ferry Bluff (text by Thomas Gardner), double
mixed chorus, 1999
VOCAL: Three Songs (text by James Joyce),
tenor, French horn, piano, 1992; Frost
Songs, tenor, piano, 1994; ‘Out, out–’ (text by Robert Frost), alto,
violin, 1995; Joy (text by Thomas
Gardner), soprano, cello, 1999; Fluorescent
Sun (text by Eisa Davis), baritone, piano, 2002; Twenty Hyphen Two (text by Melissa James Gibson), baritone, piano, 2002
PIANO: Sonata No. 1, 1995; Snapshots, 2000
(Last updated on March 18, 2003)
