Peter Jarvis

Peter Jarvis
Born1959 (age 66–67)
Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
OccupationsDirector, Composer, Conductor, Percussionist/Drummer, College/University Professor, Music Copyist, Editor
InstrumentsPercussion, Drums
LabelsNonesuch, NAXOS, Abkco, Composers Concordance Records, Capstone Records, Composers Recording Incorporated, Furious Artisans, Koch International, several others

Peter Jarvis (born 1959) is an American percussionist, director, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor, and retired college professor.

Career

Jarvis is Director of the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and Associate Director of the Composer Concordance.

Jarvis composed, orchestrated, arranged and performed music for Moonrise Kingdom, a film by Wes Anderson, which opened the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2012. Moonrise Kingdom received a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for "Best Score" in 2013. His involvement in the film as a composer included contributing to a score by Benjamin Britten and composing original music for several scenes. As arranger and orchestrator he worked on music composed by Mark Mothersbaugh and, as a performer, he led the percussion section and provided several improvisations. He also performed his own solo percussion music for the second, third, fourth and fifth seasons of the HBO Series "Boardwalk Empire." Jarvis worked on Ang Lee’s 2016 film Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, transcribing and arranging the score as well as performing as a percussionist. More recently he recorded for the soundtrack of Scott Cooper's The Pale Blue Eye, starring Christian Bale.

Over the decades, he has performed as a soloist, chamber player, Broadway musician and as conductor with chamber music ensembles including the Velez / Jarvis Duo, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, CompCord Ensemble, The Group for Contemporary Music, Saint Luke's Chamber Ensemble, the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble (which he directs) and at the Hong Kong Arts Festival. He has performed for PBS, as well as on Russian and Hong Kong television broadcasts.

Jarvis has recorded with the musicians Milton Babbitt, John Cage and Steve Reich. He has appeared as guest conductor on the San Francisco Symphony's New and Unusual Music Series with the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble.

Jarvis' compositions are published by Calabrese Brothers Music LLC, Indian Paintbrush Productions, Peter Jarvis Music Publishing, and L-T Music Publishing. He is a voting member of The Recording Academy which selects The Grammy_Awards winners, and is a member of Broadcast Music, Inc.

Transcriptions

Published by Calabrese Brothers Music, LLC.

Chamber

Film and Television (partial list)

Film

Television

Documentary

DVDs (partial list)

Discography (partial list)

Composer/Percussionist/Conductor/Director

References

  1. 1 2 "'Moonrise Kingdom' Soundtrack Details". Film Music Reporter. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ Minsker, Evan (May 21, 2012). "Listen: More Music From the Score to Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 12, 2013.
  3. ↑ "City Inside the Broken Sky". Special Administrative Region Government. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
  4. ↑ Minsker, Evan (May 2, 2012). "Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom Soundtrack: Check Out the Tracklist and a Piece of the Score". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 12, 2013.
  5. ↑ David Rakowski – Hyper Blue, Discogs. Retrieved 12 July 2018.