Peter Boyer

[EhTar 63]

Feel free to visit our website UnderScores.fr to read our latest interview with American composer Peter Boyer!

 

Read the interview in English: http://www.underscores.fr/rencontres/interviews-vo/2016/11/interview-with-peter-boyer/

 

American composer Peter Boyer has been noted for the quality of his orchestral work, often described as lyrical, energetic and powerful. He has become one of the most frequently performed American orchestral composers of his generation, with over 400 performances of his works by more than 150 orchestras, including several of the major American orchestras.

 

He has conducted three albums of his concert music, all of which have received extensive broadcasts on classical radio throughout the United States and abroad. His major work, Ellis Island: The Dream Of America, for actors and orchestra, is one of the most performed large-scale American concert works of the last 15 years in the U.S., with over 160 live performances, and it received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

 

In addition to his work for the concert hall, Boyer is active as an orchestrator for Hollywood films, having worked on more than 35 feature film scores for several leading Hollywood composers, including Michael Giacchino, James Newton Howard, Thomas Newman, James Horner and Mark Isham. Boyer agreed to answer to our questions about his work as a concert composer, and an orchestrator for movies.

[Jay 37,287]

Nice job Olivier!

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Holy moly, I've somehow never heard of this guy but that first piece linked to in the interview, "Adventure Ahead," is incredible!  I see that he works frequently as an orchestrator in Hollywood, sounds like he should be getting a lot more composer gigs!

[Jay 37,287]

He has a bunch of samples of his work on his site

 

http://propulsivemusic.com/media/listen/

[EhTar 63]

His work for concert hall is so vivid and melodic. I love it!

 

 

[BloodBoal 7,538]

I like what I'm hearing.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Just finished reading the whole interview.  Great stuff!

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

He has an album on Naxos: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HFDKSWU/

 

Actually, more than one, apparently: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0008JEKFY/

[Disco Stu 15,495]

I hope his gambit to do full orchestral recordings of his demos to get more film composer gigs pays off, from what I've heard he certainly deserves those opportunities.

[Tom Guernsey 2,280]

For anyone who likes Peter Boyer, you might like to know that he's released a new album on Naxos, the featured work is a three movement orchestral work called Balance of Power, with a number of shorter works to round out the disc. If you enjoy his style, this is very much in the same vein and highly recommended for JW fans as a lot of Boyer's music is very similar in style to what I'd call JW's 80s Olympic Fanfare mode, but also several works are clearly heavily inspired by JW's film music, especially the more Americana type such as Saving Private Ryan. Well worth checking out.