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Instruments: Clarinet, Sax , Piano
Areas of Work: North Hempstead Township , Huntington Township
 “Peter Solomon Gross graduated from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase in 1995, receiving Bachelor of Fine Arts in Traditional Composition. He began teaching woodwinds upon graduation at the prestigious North Shore Performing Arts Academy, as well as giving tutorials in Composition and Music Theory.
From this point forward he started working much more actively in music publication, producing various scores from 1999-2002 (including the Sonata in E-Major and New York Suite, by Ken Hatfield and published by Arthur Circle Music). Following this was the editing/engraving of the entire score for Tovah Feldshuh’s Tallulah, Hallelujah, the Off Broadway show which ran for six months to sold-out audiences at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater.
In 1998 he began his conducting studies in earnest with the composer/conductor Gary Fagin at the New York Conducting Institute, and soon found an appointment as Conductor of the Arumdaun Church Youth Orchestra in Bethpage, NY. Also at this time Peter was engaged in comprising a collection of solo Clarinet arrangements for HLH Publications, including the Second Movement of Mozart's Haffner" Symphony, Chopin's Prelude in Db-Major "Raindrops," the famous Adagio from Beethoven's Sonate Pathetique, and Telemann's Sonate in E-Minor, with originally composed piano accompaniment.
Since 2000, he has begun a close affiliation with the highly esteemed conductor John Yaffé, working as his Orchestral Assistant for the 92nd Street Y Symphony Orchestra in Manhattan. In the autumn of 2002 Peter worked on the opera music of Arif Mardin, winner of a Grammy Award in 2002 for his production of Nora Jones' hit song "Come Away With Me," and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. In2003 he engraved a portion of the mammoth orchestral score St. Louis Woman for the Dance Theater of Harlem, a ballet based on the 1946 opera of the same name by Harold Arlen (with new arrangements and music by Joseph Fields); this was performed at the famed State Theater as part of the renown Lincoln Center Summer Festival.
During the Summer of 2005 he finalized his design and editing work on The Gamut of Scales & Chords, an instructional book/DVD for piano students, co-authored with Cheryl Fried. In early Spring of 2006 he worked extensively on the re-orchestrations of the the 21st century opera Il Racconto Fiorentino by Louis Gioia. Most recently he's begun editing and proofreading the music of such accomplished contemporaries as André Previn, Bright Sheng, Chris Rouse, Robert Kapilow and Mark Adamo for worldwide publishers G.Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkes, and Hal Leonard.
In January of 2008, working for Emmy Award winning song-writer Jimmy Webb, he MIDI transcribed. co-arranged, and engraved the strings for two original songs by Carly Simon to be featured on her latest album This Kind Of Love. All the while Peter has continued to work on his own original compositions and arrangements.”
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