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I am available to perform solo recitals, and conduct clinics, and master classes for your event, school, or percussion program. My experience working for the Young Audiences agency with Exit 9 and the Brooklyn Academy of Music has helped me become quite comfortable with the interweaving of both formats. Below is a sample list of pieces I offer for performances as well as clinic topics that I work with. Of course, the occasion would dictate what exactly I would say and play. -Pete |
Current Recital Repertoire
| Solo Multi-Percussion | Raghavan by Russell Hartenberger
Approximately 10 minutes in length, this composition
simulates traditional South Indian Mridangam playing through the use of
energetic snare and tom-tom writing while keeping track of the tala
(rhythm cycle often depicted through different types of hand clapping) with two foot pedals.
Video
Excerpt Rechargeable Light by Brett Dietz Eight minutes of explosive drumming figures juxtaposed along side of unpredictable and sometimes confounding rhythmic and ensemble figures on the CD accompaniment. Video Excerpt Mons Montis: A Great Rock by Dajeong Choi My most recent commission from this composer, this piece took second prize in the 2005 PAS Composition Contest for Multi-Percussion with Tape Accompaniment. |
| Solo Marimba | 'Siciliano' and 'Fugue'
from Sonata no. 1 for Solo Violin by J. S. Bach/adapt. Peter Saleh
Video
Excerpt Virginia Tate by Paul Smadbeck/Arr. Saleh A simple but sweet, lyrical piece enjoyable to any audience. Video Excerpt Merlin by Andrew Thomas A musical realization of a poem about ruminations of one of the characters in the times of King Arthur's Round Table, the two movements depict his gradual decent from unrest to madness. The eleven minutes music is accordingly brooding and frenetic. Video Excerpt |
| Solo Snare Drum | Lahara/New-Thaan by Bob Becker
Lasting from 3 to 30 minutes in length depending on the
occasion, this accompanied rudimental solo is written with the vocabulary
of traditional Tabla playing.
Audio
Excerpt March for the Future by Dajeong Choi Deceptively named, this piece does everything besides march to a regular beat. |
| Solo Timpani | Canaries by Elliot Carter One of the most extroverted of Carter's 'Eight Pieces for Four Timpani', this movement showcases both the timbral possibilities of the instrument through a variety of playing zones, and the composer's fluency with metric modulation. Video Excerpt |
| Duets | Nagoya Marimbas by Steve Reich
For two marimbas, a classic yet rhythmically fascinating
piece of process music. Matre's Dance by John Psathas For percussion and piano, this piece of dark energy has been described as sounding like it "had to have been written." Video Excerpt Palindromes by Jared Soldiviero For two identical multi percussion setups, this piece fully exploits the implications of its title with out ever becoming too 'heady.' Video Excerpt |
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Comprehensive solo, chamber, and ensemble repertoire list.
(coming soon) -This list is meant to show the breadth of music that I would be able to cover in a clinic/master class setting but does not necessarily represent my current performing repertoire.
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Clinic Topics
| "We are all
Multi-Percussionists" (details coming soon)
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