Composer, concert organizer and teacher, Peter Hatch's works are in a large number of genres, from orchestral and chamber music to instrumental theatre, electroacoustics and installations.
He received a DMA degree from the University of British Columbia following MusBac and MusM degrees from the University of Toronto. His works have won recognition with composer competitions held by CBC Radio, SOCAN, the Winnipeg New Music Festival and Vancouver New Music and have been performed at festivals such as the ISCM World Music Days, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, the Guelph Spring Festival, Scotiafest, the Vancouver New Music Festival, the Percussive Arts Society, the Vancouver Early Music Festival and the International Computer Music Conference. His works have been recorded on numerous compact discs under the CBC Musica Viva, CMC Centrediscs, Conaccord, CBC and Artifact labels.
Theatrical and multi-media elements have been incorporated into many of his works, an interest that has grown from extending traditional concert music performance practices and from collaborations with director David McMurray Smith, architect Dereck Revington and choreographers David Earle and Bill James. Peter's street opera 'Myaudia: Return of the Pied People' premiered in the summer of 2010 in both Stratford, Ontario and the old port of Montreal.
The writings of Gertrude Stein have played an important role in his compositions and this influence has resulted in such works ranging from the full evening instrumental theatre piece 'Mounting Picasso' to his very short opera 'Asks Alice'.
As well as his compositional work, Peter has been very active as the artistic director of new music ensembles and festivals. In 1985 he founded NUMUS Concerts, a Waterloo based new music organization.''Peter was Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony from 1999-2003 and is currently Artistic Director of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, and Arts and Culture Consultant with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Peter is Professor at the Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University, where he was University Research Professor for the 2006-07 academic year.
Contact information:
Faculty of Music
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada, N2L 3C5
Tel: (519) 884-0710 ext. 2286
phatch@wlu.ca
