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Peter Mowrey

Associate Professor of Music, Chairperson

Peter Mowrey, composition, piano, music technology, and music theory, Chair of Music Department. Associate Professor of Music, appointed 1997. B.Mus. (piano) and M.M. (composition), University of Georgia; D.M. (composition), Indiana University. Prior to Wooster, taught as a graduate assistant at the University of Georgia and served as Aural Skills Coordinator at Indiana University. Winner of the GMTA Collegiate Piano Competition, 1988. Keyboard performance highlights include Franck's Symphonic Variations with the UGA Orchestra, Joan Tower's Black Topaz (piano and chamber ensemble) on live radio, and Peter Maxwell Davies' Missa super l'homme arme (voice, keyboards, and chamber group) at the Spoleto festival in Charleston. Compositions include Toccata for piano, the national runner-up in the MTNA Collegiate Composition Contest (1990); a sextet for mixed ensemble which won the Philip Slates Composition Contest in 1994; The Hero's Journey, a six-movement piano piece in honor of Joseph Campbell; and many chamber works and electronic compositions, including The Masks of God: An Homage to Joseph Campbell, for electronics and dancers, and The Grail, an opera for seven singers and electronic ensemble. Works have recently been performed at a number of institutions, including the College of Wooster, the University of Georgia, Indiana University, the Oberlin Conservatory, and Ohio University. Author of the book Award Winning Films: A Viewer's Reference to 2700 Acclaimed Motion Pictures (McFarland & Company, 1994).