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Peter Graham
Peter Graham

Born
1958 in Lanarkshire (Schottland)

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Peter Graham was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, where his introduction to music came through brass and piano lessons from his parents. He read music at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1980. During this period he came into contact with Ray Steadman-Allen and Edward Gregson, both of whom encouraged his early efforts at composition. He later undertook postgraduate compositional studies with Edward Gregson at Goldsmiths` College, University of London and holds a PhD in Composition.

From 1983 until 1986 he was resident in New York City, USA, where he worked as a freelance composer /arranger and as a publications editor with the S.A. Music Bureau. Since his return to the U.K. he has worked regularly as an arranger for BBC Television and Radio and has specialised in composition for the British style brass band. Since the publication of Dimensions (1983), he has carved out a niche as an outstanding arranger for brass bands, and a leading figure amongst contemporary band composers. His original compositions, which include The Essence of Time, Montage and On Alderley Edge, are performed worldwide and have been selected as test-pieces for National Championships in Australia, New Zealand, North America and across Europe.

His music for wind and concert band has been recorded and performed by many of the world’s leading ensembles, including the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra and the Royal Norwegian Navy Band. Harrison's Dream, commissioned by the United States Air Force Band, Washington D.C., won the 2002 ABA/Ostwald Award for composition. Commissioned by BMG/RCA Red Label to arrange and compose an album of xylophone music for virtuoso Evelyn Glennie, the resulting recording was nominated as Best Classical Crossover Album at the 1999 Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles.

He is published principally by Rosehill Music and Boosey & Hawkes, and since 1994 by his Gramercy Music, a company he formed together with his wife, Janey, which specialises in the publication of brass, wind and vocal music. Peter Graham is Professor of Composition at the University of Salford, Greater Manchester, and has held various posts with some of the UK’s finest bands including Music Associate/Conductor with the famous Black Dyke Band (1997-2004) and the first civilian composer-in-residence with Her Majesty’s Coldstream Guards Band (2003-2005).

Peter Graham lives in Cheshire, England with his wife Janey, son Ryan and daughter Megan.

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On The Shoulders of Giants

On The Shoulders of Giants

The Red Machine

The Red Machine

Cossack Fire Dance

Cossack Fire Dance

Swedish Folk Song

Swedish Folk Song

Windows of the World

Windows of the World

Music by Peter Graham

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Naniwa Orchestral Winds 2015

Naniwa Orchestral Winds 2015

- NO LONGER AVAILABLE - CD 1: Akademische Festfanfare - Apple Valley Overture - Symphonic Movement - Shakespeare Pictures - Legacy of the Woods - Armenian Dances Part II - Egmont CD 2: Third...
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TDIV545
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On The Shoulders of Giants

On The Shoulders of Giants

The art of brass playing embraces a range of diverse approaches and styles. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the musical melting pot of the USA. On the Shoulders of Giants pays tribute to this...
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GRAM022
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The Red Machine

The Red Machine

The Red Machine was commissioned by the London-based Band of the Coldstream Guards. Among the band's duties is the famous changing of the guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace where their...
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GRAM010
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Cossack Fire Dance

Cossack Fire Dance

From Call of the Cossacks (see above), Cossack Fire Dance, based on the folk song Mazeltov, brings to mind part of the Jewish wedding ceremony. Introduced by a Klezmer clarinet call, the music gives...
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GRAM018
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Swedish Folk Song

Swedish Folk Song, has it's origins in an old Scandinavian melody first adapted by Stuart K. Hine in 1949 to his own sacred hymn, How Great Thou Art. From the quiet opening on the solo flute to...
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GRAM005
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Windows of the World

"Windows of the World", written for the Royal Norwegian Navy Band, provides solo opportunities for several principal players. Peter Graham takes us first to Latin America, then to Japan and...
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GRAM003
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Gaelforce

Commissioned by Fodens, this work follows in Cry of the Celts stlye & features 3 traditional Irish tunes.

1. The Minstrel Boy
2. Tossing the Feathers
3. The Rocky Road to...
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GRAM001
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Crossover

- NO LONGER AVAILABLE - Bruremarsj - I Himmelen - Cry of the Celts - Cartoon - Andante from Concertino Brillante - Symphony for Wind Orchestra - Arctic Landscape -...
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TDIV413
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Cry of the Celts

By huge demand this spectacular concert suite is now available for wind band. Contains 5 movements: 1) Nightmare (includes Lord of the Dance and Stolen Kiss) 2) Suil a Ruin 3) Breakout 4)...
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GRAM002
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