Music/Projects/Performances


Peter Edwards //music studies - composer - guitarist



Music / Projects / Performances

Click on links for recordings (more coming soon)

dash against the quiet (2016) (violin and viola duo). First performed by Galya Bisengalieva and Robert Ames, Huddersfield 2016.


by the sound of its voice (2014)
 (saxophone duo). First performed by Decho Ensemble 10 October 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio. Live broadcast on WCLV from the Keybank Studio.


The Weight (2012)
. First performed by Aksiom ensemble 18 January 2013.
 Funded by the Arts Council Norway (norsk kulturråd).


Boulez Springar (2012). First performed by Ole Karsten Sundlisæter (organ) at Eivind Grovens organ house 1 December 2012. IN collaboration with Grovens Organ House, NyMusikks composer group and Notam. Also performed by Sara Aimée Smiseth at Ultima Contemporary Music Festival 2014. 


Iterations (2010), harpsichord and electric/acoustic guitar. First performed by Jane Chapman and Ole Andre Farstad at NuMusic festival,  Stavanger. Funded by the Arts Council Norway (Norsk kulturråd).


Iterations II (2010) for harpsichord solo. First performed by Jane Chapman at Handel House, London. 4/11 2010. 18:30.


Curved Grooves – Balkansemblet  (album) (Etnisk musikklubb records, 2009). Accordion, Bouzouki – Per Olaf Ranger; guitar – Peter Edwards; bass – Torstein Kinn; clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Øyvin Yri; drums, Percussion – Richard Lorentz Johansen; baglama (track 3) and guitar (track 8) – Jan Gustav Schaanning


Chiaroscuro (2008), fl. cl. vibr. strings First Performed by Oslo Sinfonietta. 


1976 Polyphony (2007), saxophone quartet. first performed by Erie Saxophone Quartet, Pittsburgh, PA.


Wayfaring Stranger (2006) for sopran and percussion quartet. First performed by Lore Lixenberg and Backbeat Percussion Quartet.  10/2 2007 at LSO St Lukes, London. 


Magnificat (2006), S.S.S.A. choir


Sonata (2006), violin and marimba


The Ringing Grooves of Change (2006), keyboard/piano/disklavier solo. First performed by Jane Chapman at Cargo in London.


Stratifica – album(free improvisation). Peter Edwards (guitar), Graeme Flowers (trumpet) and Erik Strutz (live electronics), (AcousticPicnic 2005).


Confessions (2005) S.S.S.A vocal ensemble. First performed by Ex Toto Corde and funded by the Norwegian Composers Fund


Scissors and Seams (2004). string quartet and tape


Steep II (2004). S.A.T.B choir. First performed by Vox Humana


Sentient II (2003). flute quartet. First performed by Oslo Vind on Norwegian radio P2


Sentient I (2001). flute quartet and organ. First performed by Oslo Vind


Temporalität des Seins (2000). percussion quintet. First performed by Rob Waring and the Norwegian Academy of Music Percussion Ensemble


Steep (1999). S.S.A.A choir. (Norsk Musikforlag)


Absence (1999). flute, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, vibraphone, violin, viola, violincello, contra bass (Norsk Musikforlag). First performed by Insomnio (nl) on Norwegian radio P2


Little Rooms (1998). piano solo (Norsk Musikforlag)


1. World (1998) organ

2. Astronomy (1998) organ


Greenlandic Sketch (1997) flute and guitar