External links
- Randolph Peters at IMDb
- https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/37612 on Canadian Music Centre
- http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/petersr.htm on The Living Composers Project
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Randolph Peters (born 28 December 1959) is a Canadian composer [1] who is known for his output of roughly 100 film scores made mostly for Canadian films.
Peters was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He graduated from the University of Winnipeg and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
Peters wrote a large amount of music for Canadian television, radio, dance and theatre. From 1996 to 2001 he was the composer-in-residence and curator for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; [2] [3] he also served as the director of that symphony's annual New Music Festival. [4]
Peters composed several operas for the Canadian Opera Company, [2] of which the most successful was The Golden Ass , which was created with novelist Robertson Davies shortly before Davies' death. [5] [4] After Davies' death, COC director Richard Bradshaw worked with Peters to finalize the opera. [6] [7] The opera premiered in Toronto at the Hummingbird Centre in April, 1999. [6]
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Philip Glass is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. Glass describes himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped to evolve stylistically.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
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