Peter Jarvis was born on 1959 and is an American percussionist, director, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor and college professor.
10 Facts About Peter Jarvis
Peter Jarvis is Director of the highly acclaimed New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and Associate Director of the Composer Concordance.
Peter Jarvis worked on Ang Lee's movie Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, released in 2016; his involvement on the project included transcribing, arranging and as percussionist.
Peter Jarvis has performed for PBS, Russian and Hong Kong television.
Peter Jarvis has performed and or recorded with composers musicians such as Milton Babbitt, John Cage and Steve Reich.
Peter Jarvis is active as a percussionist, conductor and composer in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and elsewhere.
Peter Jarvis has appeared as guest conductor on the San Francisco Symphony's New and Unusual Music Series with the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble.
Peter Jarvis's compositions are published by Calabrese Brothers Music LLC, Indian Paintbrush Productions, Peter Jarvis Music Publishing, and L-T Music Publishing.
Peter Jarvis is a voting member of The Recording Academy which selects The Grammy_Awards winners, and is a member of Broadcast Music, Inc.
The Record described Peter Jarvis's conducting of "Percussion Symphony" as "a masterful example of the conductors craft", and praised the way he sculpted the melody in the medieval song by Guillaume Dufay.