Peter Nagle is a composer and cellist based in London. His music combines elements of improvisation, extended just intonation and other alternative/ microtonal tunings, drones, loops and electronica.
Peter was born in Birmingham, England in 1970. He studied composition at Sheffield University with David Harold Cox, and later with Michael Finnissy. He was twice shortlisted for the Huddersfield New Music Festival Young Composers Award, as well as having several pieces performed through the aegis of the Society for the Promotion of New Music. His music has also been performed in Bath, Birmingham, Manchester and London, by ensembles including Elision, the New Music Players, the Duke Quartet and the Goldberg Ensemble .
Peter has performed in recent years at a variety of venues including Arch1, the Forge, St John's Smith Square and a residency at the Vaults Festival with the contemporary collective Wolf Pack. He has also taken part in performances of John Eacott’s Floodtide project.
Much of Peter’s recent music combines his cello playing with electronic s and drones. An abiding interest is in the possibilities offered by extended just intonation, and the expressive possibilities of alternative tunings and microtonality. He also works with drone textures, electronics and processed field recordings, often in combination with acoustic instruments. These interests find expression in recent works such as “Cantus”, written for Carla Rees and rarescale, and “Fragments of the First Eternal Melody”, featured on the Spectropol Records compilation Possible Worlds Vol. 3. Psychogeographical ideas are also a recurrent theme in his work, and inform recent projects such as Ronan Point and the album Water Music.
Other recent projects include: commissions for rarescale, the Scottish Recorder Orchestra and Trinity Laban Contemporary Music Ensemble; the album Automatic Writing and E.P. The Optimist; and performances both solo and as part of Black Rice.
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Peter was born in Birmingham, England in 1970. He studied composition at Sheffield University with David Harold Cox, and later with Michael Finnissy. He was twice shortlisted for the Huddersfield New Music Festival Young Composers Award, as well as having several pieces performed through the aegis of the Society for the Promotion of New Music. His music has also been performed in Bath, Birmingham, Manchester and London, by ensembles including Elision, the New Music Players, the Duke Quartet and the Goldberg Ensemble .
Peter has performed in recent years at a variety of venues including Arch1, the Forge, St John's Smith Square and a residency at the Vaults Festival with the contemporary collective Wolf Pack. He has also taken part in performances of John Eacott’s Floodtide project.
Much of Peter’s recent music combines his cello playing with electronic s and drones. An abiding interest is in the possibilities offered by extended just intonation, and the expressive possibilities of alternative tunings and microtonality. He also works with drone textures, electronics and processed field recordings, often in combination with acoustic instruments. These interests find expression in recent works such as “Cantus”, written for Carla Rees and rarescale, and “Fragments of the First Eternal Melody”, featured on the Spectropol Records compilation Possible Worlds Vol. 3. Psychogeographical ideas are also a recurrent theme in his work, and inform recent projects such as Ronan Point and the album Water Music.
Other recent projects include: commissions for rarescale, the Scottish Recorder Orchestra and Trinity Laban Contemporary Music Ensemble; the album Automatic Writing and E.P. The Optimist; and performances both solo and as part of Black Rice.
(Longer biography here.)