“...a newer talent…something special…” JoshSpear.com
“…new music champion…” Classical Music Magazine
Peter Gregson is a 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 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 2008/09.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.
