Photo by Jeanne Lyons
Peter Christian is a musician living in Philadelphia. He is committed to music collaboration as a playground for social engagement and healing.
He has collaborated as a singer, producer, songwriter, composer, and arranger across the northeast, and plays in the electronic music duo JNPR, making "inexplicably ethereal sounds" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
About
Peter has sung in choirs all his life and believes that voices together can have tremendous power. He has written dozens of works that incorporate the human voice and served recently as composer-in-residence at Christ Church in Philadelphia (2019-20). As a producer, Peter layers sound textures suggesting distant worlds. He was commissioned by Jeanne Lyons and Daniel Travis Draper to create sound design for their theatre work "Scarcity," premiered in 2019 at the Lizé Puppet Art Colony in Yilan, Taiwan.
Other project collaborators have included MANA Quartet, PUBLIQuartet, Network for New Music, Riverside Choral Society, Play On Philly Symphony Orchestra, Fresh Cut Brass, Reading Choral Society, and students at Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training.
Peter is currently in the PhD program for music composition at Rutgers University, studying with Melissa Dunphy and Scott Ordway, and previously studied at West Chester University.
Listen
To The River, a selection from the new full length work Life After Me. This solo show for voice was performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Neighborhood House Play Festival, and Cannonball Festival in 2022.
Contact
epeterc at gmail dot com