Peter Jarvis

Composer | Percussionist | Drummer | Conductor | Educator |

Contact – PeterMJarvis@gmail.com

Peter Jarvis (b. 1959, Hackensack, New Jersey) is a percussionist, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor and college professor. He teaches percussion, chamber music, and academic classes at Connecticut College and Bergen Community College in New Jersey. He is an Associate Director of he Composers Concordance and has over 150 compositions, and many recordings spanning various genres of music..

Over the decades, he has performed popular and unpopular music with equal enthusiasm. He has performed as a soloist, chamber player, Broadway musician and as conductor/player with numerous chamber music ensembles, orchestras and choruses. The proliferation of percussion literature is extremely important to Jarvis, and approximately 100 solo pieces have been composed for him, which he has performed on multi percussion, timpani, vibraphone, marimba, solo snare drum and drum set.

He has been nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy award for “Best Score” as part of the composing team for major Hollywood films.

As conductor, he has appeared with the Saint Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Composers Concordance, and many other groups. He records extensively as soloist, chamber musician and conductor and his compositions are heard on several labels. His compositions are published by Calabrese Brothers Music LLC, Indian Paintbrush Productions and L-T Music Publishing and he is a member of BMI. – From Wikipedia