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“…a newer talent…something special…” JoshSpear.com
“…new music champion…” Classical Music Magazine
“…a pioneer of contemporary music…“ The Scotsman
“…[he] has the world at his fingertips…” The Scotsman
Born in Edinburgh in 1987, Peter Gregson is cellist and pioneer of contemporary music. This has been recognized with the 2008 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland award for music and is a member of the Courvoisier Future 500.
He has collaborated with many of the most exciting composers, sound designers, engineers and technologists working today, including the MIT Media Lab, where he was the cellist on Tod Machover’s revolutionary Hyperbow project, which resulted in an album of new works by Milton Mermikides, Martin Suckling, Artem Vassiliev, Patrick Nunn and Monica Max West for the RAM label in early 2008.
Peter was in residence at the Banff Centre, Canada, in early 2008. This residency produced his recording of Spem in Alium for forty multitracked cellos, alongside new works especially commissioned from John Metcalfe, Milton Mermikides, Philip Sheppard, Martin Suckling, Max Richter and Thomas Hewitt Jones. The SPEM project later toured with Eclipse Speakers to America as part of the Eclipse Masterclass Series.
His second album, factory, was commissioned in mid-2009 by New Media Scotland to mark their 10 year anniversary in conjunction with the Distance Lab Mutsugoto project, and featured music co-written by Peter and Milton Mermikides.
Peter can also be heard as the solo cellist on Howard Goodall’s Gramophone award winning album, The Enchanted Voices and Enchanted Carols, both of which have been met to great commercial and critical acclaim.
He recently recorded Terminal, an album for Peter Gabriel and Bowers & Wilkins’ Society of Sound label, at Real World Studios in October 2009. It features a binaural recording of Steve Reich’s Cello Counterpoint and six new works for electric and acoustic cello. It is set for release in January 2010.
Concerts planned throughout 2010 include The Media Lab (Boston), The Future Gallery (London), The 92nd St Y (New York), The Roundhouse (London), The Queen’s Hall (Edinburgh) and Kings Place (London).
Peter Gregson plays a 1987 Colin Irving acoustic cello and a blue five string electric cello made for him by Eric Jensen in Seattle.
