Peter Fischer



Peter Fischer is an Assistant Professor of Music at Texas Tech University. He teaches theory, composition, and electronic music. From 1995-2003 he taught at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado. With the help of a five-year Colorado Program of Excellence Grant, Dr. Fischer built state of the art technology labs, computer music studios, recording facilities, and smart classrooms at ASC. His recent compositions include a Violin Concerto, Rings of Crystalline Sky, a large work for solo piano, Let It Be Forgotten and Never Again for choir, The Windhover, for mezzo-soprano and tape, and Barcarole, for mezzo-soprano and piano. A new work for Viola Quintet will be premiered at the International Viola Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland in June, featuring the Faculty String Quartet from TTU with soloist Korey Konkol from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Fischer studied composition with Dinos Constantinides, Peter Hesterman, and Mark Lee. He studied electronic and computer music with Stephen David Beck. He completed a DMA in Music Composition from Louisiana State University in 1996 and holds degrees in Music and Literature/Communications from Illinois Benedictine College and a Master’s Degree in Music Composition from Eastern Illinois University.

To contact Peter Fischer, email peter.fischer@ttu.edu



 

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