Peter Gregson is a cellist who uses his blog successfully to promote himself, his work, and his numerous projects. I’ll let Peter’s impressive biography offer a formal online introduction.
Peter Gregson is an award winning cellist and pioneer of contemporary music, reinvigorating the classical genre by embracing contemporary culture and technologies. From full capacity concerts in churches, to web-based recitals and free-standing events in warehouses, his aim is to find the pulse of contemporary music and engage the mass of otherwise excluded audiences. This was recognized in November 2008 by being awarded the prestigious Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland award.
He has collaborated with many of the most exciting composers writing today, including Martin Suckling, Patrick Nunn, Monica Max West, Artem Vassiliev, Milton Mermikides, Joby Talbot, Howard Goodall, Richard Sisson, John Metcalfe, Max Richter, Philip Sheppard, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Nigel Morgan and Jenny Olivia Johnston.
Peter was the cellist on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s revolutionary HyperBow project, a part of Tod Machover’s HyperInstrument group, for which he recorded a CD/DVD of new works. During 2009, he will be participating on Stanford’s SoundWIRE project with the CCRMA lab.
During February and March 2008, he was in residence at the Banff Centre in Canada recording his debut award winning CD, SPEM. Featuring five new works alongside the first solo cello recording of Thomas Tallis’s 40 part motet, Spem in Alium, the CD was released at a sell-out showcase concert at Greyfriars Kirk, and was simultaneously broadcast online to an audience across the world. Peter will be touring the SPEM programme as part of the Eclipse Master Class series in America.
Peter is currently collaborating with London based digital communications agencyOutside Line to create a series of concerts called The Words on The Wall, which focus on new ways to engage the audience by using new tools and spaces. The first of these critically acclaimed events, which encouraged SMS, Twitter and Flickr integration from the audience, was presented in January 2009, with a further four planned for the coming season. He performed at the international charity event, theTwestival in February 2009.
Peter Gregson is a co-founder of the cutting-edge production company Coffeeloop, plays a 1987 Colin Irving acoustic cello and a blue five string electric cello made for him by Eric Jensen in Seattle. He uses Apple technologies and Eclipse Speakers.
Peter’s clean and well designed blog is powered by Wordpress and uses an Upstart Blogger Wordpress theme. In addition to his blog Peter also uses Flickr effectively, uploading photographs of interest, both to musicians, and the wider public, to maximize his social media presence. A solid and easily recognisable domain name ensures that his blog is easy to find, with or without assistance from Google. Read Peter’s blog at petergregson.co.uk.
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