Peter J. 托马斯。

Peter J. 托马斯。 has been a member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra since 2008 and has performed around the world as a multi-genre soloist, 临床医生, 教育家, and chamber musician. Peter frequently performs with the 414 Quartet, 现在的音乐, bv伟德ios下载三, and in collaboration with multiple bands. He is also the co-founder of MusiConnect, a community-building music series that safely brought people together during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was nominated as one of Milwaukee’s best music festivals in 2021. 另外, Peter was the manager and cellist of the award-winning classical crossover indie-rock band, I’m Not A Pilot, that toured extensively across the Midwest at colleges, performing art centers, music festivals and in educational collaboration concerts with high school orchestras from 2009-2016.

Mr. 托马斯。 has presented clinics and workshops across the country through his innovative use of the electric cello and has recorded, 安排, and edited music for numerous artists including 2Cellos and The Piano Guys through Hal Leonard 音乐. Peter was most recently recognized as the Best Acoustic 音乐ian in the Best of Milwaukee 2021 annual competition by the Shepherd Express. He was also the winner of the 威斯康辛州 Area 音乐 Industry (WAMI)’s String Player of the Year award in 2012 and 2015 and has been nominated for the award five times. As a songwriter, Peter’s original song “Only in Dreams” featuring vocalist Amanda Huff took home the 2019 WAMI award for Song of the Year as well as being recognized in the same category by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

As an 教育家, Mr. 托马斯。 holds the position of Adjunct Cello Professor at Carthage College and he also maintains a private cello studio of gifted musicians. During the summer, Peter teaches on faculty at CLAZZ, a multi-genre music festival in Arcidosso, 意大利. He has also served on the faculty of the American Suzuki Institute each summer since 2013. Peter is the recipient of Civic 音乐 Milwaukee’s 2018 Educator Award for Certificate of Excellence in Studio 音乐. His students have won competitions and full-tuition scholarships in music programs across the country. Peter has taught master classes at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Whitewater, Lawrence University, Gustavus Adolphus College, Eastern Michigan University, Maranatha Baptist University, Washington College, and at dozens of high schools across the state of 威斯康辛州.

Prior to joining the MSO, Mr. 托马斯。 performed with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Symphony. Peter appeared as a soloist with the New World Symphony on two separate occasions, where he performed Richard Strauss’s ‘Don Quixote’ and Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, as the 2008 Concerto Competition winner. Originally from Stevens Point, 威斯康辛州, where he was born into a family of musicians, Peter began playing cello at age five at the American Suzuki Talent 教育 Center and received degrees at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the Cleveland Institute of 音乐. His primary teachers were Lawrence Leviton, Tanya Remenikova, Joseph Johnson, and Stephen Geber.

Peter enjoys the life of being a music ambassador and strives to spread awareness of the arts in the community through his many outlets. Peter performs on a fine English cello circa 1813 by maker 托马斯。 Kennedy.

• Master of 音乐, Cello Performance, Cleveland Institute of 音乐
• Bachelor of 音乐, Cello Performance, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• Fellow, New World Symphony Orchestra

• MUS 0550-13 — Private Instrument Cello