Peter Gilbert

• Born — 23 December 1975 • Birthplace — Louisville, Kentucky, United States • Occupation — Composer and teacher of music composition • Website — www.petergilbert.net

Gilbert did his doctorate in composition at Harvard University with Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky as well as Joshua Fineberg and Hans Tutschku and worked with Chaya Czernowin, Helmut Lachenmann and Magnus Lindberg. He also studied at Illinois Wesleyan University with David Vayo and at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Margaret Brouwer. He has taught at Wellesley College, Northeastern University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University, UMass-Dartmouth and Harvard University. In 2003 he founded the Cleveland Institute of Music's summer composition course, the Young Composers Program at CIM with Orianna Webb. They served as artistic directors and faculty until 2010. Since 2010, Gilbert has been one of the directors of the composition program at the University of New Mexico. Gilbert is a winner of the Barlow Prize, the Look and Listen Prize and a Siemens Music Foundation grant. Gilbert collaborates frequently with his wife, German composer Karola Obermueller. Their multi-media, live-electronic chamber opera dreimaldrei gleich unendlich has been performed in Germany and the United States, including a premiere as part of the Musik der Jahrhunderte festival in Stuttgart. A prize-winner at the National Opera Association awards, Dreimaldrei was selected for the Imagining Media exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of ZKM. They have created multiple interactive installation pieces including Listening to Mountains, and An Overlapping of Spaces, which combined a series of hanging surround-sound speaker arrays with unique iPod-based audience-interactivity. It was featured as a center-piece of the Perceiving Space in Art Gallery at the Davis Museum (Wellesley College) from 2008 to 2010 where it was chosen early on as an Artwork of the Month. They also worked together on Robert S., an opera with Theater Bonn. Gilbert and Obermueller teach together at the University of New Mexico and run the John Donald Robb Composers Symposium.

• Revealing Distant Cities • Trailer for Dreimaldrei Gleich Unendlich • Songs from the Tundra