Current Series: The Words on the Wall & SPEM
Latest News: Peter wins the Spirit of Scotland Award!
“...a newer talent…something special…” JoshSpear.com
“…new music champion…” Classical Music Magazine
“…a pioneer of contemporary music…“ The Scotsman
“…[he] has the world at his fingertips…” The Scotsman
Peter Gregson is an award winning cellist and pioneer of contemporary music, reinvigorating the classical genre by embracing contemporary culture and technologies. From full capacity concerts in churches, to web-based recitals and free standing events in warehouses, his aim is to find the pulse of contemporary music and engage the mass of otherwise excluded audiences.
He has collaborated with many of the most exciting composers writing today, including Martin Suckling, Patrick Nunn, Monica Max West, Artem Vassiliev, Milton Mermikides, Joby Talbot, Howard Goodall, Richard Sisson, John Metcalfe, Max Richter, Philip Sheppard, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Nigel Morgan and Jenny Olivia Johnston.
Peter was the cellist on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s revolutionary HyperBow project, a part of Tod Machover’s HyperInstrument group, for which he recorded a CD/DVD of new works. During 2009, he will be participating on Stanford’s SoundWIRE project with the CCRMA lab.
During February and March 2008, he was in residence at the Banff Centre in Canada recording his debut award winning CD, SPEM. Featuring five new works alongside the first solo cello recording of Thomas Tallis’s 40 part motet, Spem in Alium, the CD was released at a sell-out showcase concert at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh on April 25th, and was simultaneously broadcast online to an audience across the world. Peter will be touring the SPEM programme as part of the Eclipse Master Class series in America and Japan in 2009.Starting in early 2009, Peter will produce a series of concerts called the words on the wall, which will focus on new ways to engage the audience by using new tools and spaces, and will tour this programme alongside SPEM.He won the prestigious Spirit of Scotland award in November 2008 for his contribution to contemporary Scottish culture.Peter Gregson is a co-founder of cutting-edge production company Coffeeloop, plays a 1987 Colin Irving acoustic cello and a blue five string electric cello made for him by Eric Jensen. He uses Apple technologies and Eclipse Speakers.
