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Peter Garland

Peter Garland was born on 25 January 1952 in Portland, Maine. He studied with James Tenney and Harold Budd and is a composer, writer and publisher. In 1971, after a workshop with Dick Higgins at CalArts, he began the Soundings Press series, which has been published continuously since. He has written extensively on Native American music and on the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. His recordings appear on Tzadik, Cold Blue Music and New World Records among others. Mode released Another Sunrise.

Peter Garland was born on 25 January 1952 in Portland, Maine. He studied with James Tenney and Harold Budd and is a composer, writer and publisher. In 1971, after a workshop with Dick Higgins at CalArts, he began the Soundings Press series, which has been published continuously since. He has written extensively on Native American music and on the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. His recordings appear on Tzadik, Cold Blue Music and New World Records among others. Mode released Another Sunrise.

Blackearth Percussion Group (LP)
Great 1974 album on Opus One with six compositions for percussion (and prepared piano), including Cage's Amores and a rare recording of a Bertoncini piece. Never re-issued on either LP or CD. With inserts.
Ingram Marshall: A Personal and Musical Appreciation (Book)
Other Minds is pleased to inaugurate Other Minds Books with Peter Garland’s work of memoir and criticism, Ingram Marshall: A Personal and Musical Appreciation. The composer Peter Garland met the composer Ingram Marshall in 1970; both were students du…
Another Sunrise
Three works by Peter Garland, Another Sunrise, Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Cottage and I Have Had to Learn the Simplest Things Last, for pianos, harpsichord, voices and percussion, with Aki Takahashi and Essential Music.
The Birthday Party
On first hearing, the piano music of Peter Garland (b. 1952) creates a feeling of dislocation, then astonishment: It is so very different from the contemporary concert music we are familiar with. The composer's intent, his emotional directness is imm…
Moon Viewing Music (Inscrutable Stillness Studies #1)
Peter Garland's Moon Viewing Music (Inscrutable Stillness Studies #1) is a quiet, sparse, introspective six-movement work for three large gongs and a large tam-tam. Performed by celebrated new-music percussionist William Winant, it unfolds with a mut…
After the Wars
Peter Garland's After the Wars, a resonant, sometimes clangorous four-movement piano solo, displays a unique sense of grace and a sincerity of expression that is quintessentially Garlandesque. In some ways it marks a slight shift of focus from his mo…
String Quartets
This CD presents the premiere recordings of two spirited and enticing quartets that draw on Peter Garland’s well-traveled ear and great sense of personal vision. Both works move with a unique sense of grace and a sincerity of expression that is purel…
'Waves breaking on rocks
Peter Garland (b. 1952) studied with Harold Budd and James Tenney at Cal Arts and had long student-mentor friendships with Lou Harrison, Conlon Nancarrow, Paul Bowles and Dane Rudhyar. Like Harrison, Garland has forged his own musical vocabulary as a…
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