Troy Peters

Music Director

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Troy Peters is Music Director of the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio. His work has been the subject of nationally broadcast profiles on CBS News Sunday Morning and National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday, and he has received seven ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming. Vermont Governor James Douglas recognized his contribution to the state's cultural life by proclaiming April 17, 2005, as "Troy Peters Day" in Vermont. He has also gained international attention for his orchestral collaborations with rock guitarist and composer Trey Anastasio (of the band Phish), including numerous live performances and two albums on Elektra Records.

Peters has guest conducted many groups, including the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Mahler Festival, the Vermont Mozart Festival, the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra and the Opera Company of Middlebury. Among the renowned soloists with whom he has collaborated are Midori, Jaime Laredo, Horacio Gutierrez, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Philip Ying and Soovin Kim. Formerly Music Director of the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, his other past positions include posts at the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, Pacific Chamber Soloists, Perpetuum Mobile and Tacoma Youth Symphony. He is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied both composition and conducting.

Still active as a composer, Troy Peters' works range from orchestral and chamber music to a large body of songs and an opera for hand puppets. Among his honors are the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from Meet the Composer and the Rockefeller Foundation. His primary compositional mentors were George Crumb and Ned Rorem. A versatile instrumentalist, Peters not only plays the viola, but has also performed on tenor banjo and electric guitar with symphony orchestras.