Perpetua wins the 2021 American Bandmasters Association Sousa-ABA-Ostwald
Am so happy and honoured to share that PERPETUA has won the American Bandmasters Association 2021 Sousa-ABA-Ostwald Composition Contest. Am so grateful to Foothills Concert Band and their conductor Anthony Reimer for commissioning Perpetua. Congratulations to the other finalists for their wonderful compositions: Haley Woodrow, Daisuke Shimizu, and Aaron Perrine You can hear the piece […]
A blog post to (hopefully) make it clear which version of Song of Hope it is you are looking for :)
I get a fair few questions about the different versions of Song of Hope – hopefully this blog post will help make things a bit more clear. Firstly…why does the piece exist and why are there so many versions? When Ryan (Anthony) first heard the middle movement of my cornet concerto Milestone (a movement that […]
Changes in the way we handle PDF files
Hi all – The website is undergoing a few changes in order to help streamline the process for buying and distributing PDF downloads. Over the next month or so more and more titles will be available as immediate PDF downloads, enabling you to get access to the music even faster.
Website update – Sunday 14 June 2020
Thanks for coming to the website. It is undergoing some changes today (Sunday 14 June 2020) – if you run in to any issues as it is updates please email pete@pmcomposer.info Thanks!
Fragile Oasis picked as the set test for the Spring Festival, Blackpool, England
Fragile Oasis has been picked for the Senior Cup brass band competition, part of the Spring Festival held in at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England, on Saturday May 13. Originally commissioned by the Leyland Band and Michael Bach (partly funded by The John Golland Trust), this is the first time it has been used as […]