composers

Peter Copley

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Peter Copley was born in Hove in 1962. After studying at the Royal Academy of Music and privately with the late Hans Keller, a Polish Government Scholarship took him to the Akademia Muzyczna in Krakow. This proved to be the beginning of an enduring connection with Eastern Europe, from where he has received many of his most significant commissions and first performances.

His orchestral works include a Violin Concerto, first performed in the 1997 Lewes and Brighton Festivals, and a Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra, commissioned by the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra and first performed with soloist Richard Durrant in Hove Town Hall in 1993.

1998 saw the first performances of 'Purgations', a multi-media project written in collaboration with Mark C.Hewitt [text] and Tom Walker [images], funded by the Arts Council. Peter Copley's music, composed for string sextet, received further performances in the 1998 Brighton Festival.

His works include a Wind Quintet, 'No Man's Land' for two Double Basses,a 'Concerto for Trumpet, Strings and Percussion', ?Unfrozen Architecture? for Southern Winds and ?Farnham Fantasia? for strings, commissioned by the Farnham Festival and recently performed in both the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall,. In 2001 Peter completed ?A City Awakes?, a large scale work in one movement, commissioned by the Brighton & Hove Philharmonic Society as a celebration of their return to the refurbished Brighton Dome and of Brighton & Hove's elevation to city status.