Press kit, Peter Schickele · Press kit, official use
Composer, satirist, performer, recording artist, radio host—Peter Schickele is internationally recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the field of music. In 2015, the New Yorker hailed Schickele as “a latter-day Haydn…the one American composer whose name makes everyone smile.” Schickele’s works, now well in excess of 100 pieces for symphony orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles, voice, movies and television, have given him “a leading role in the ever-more-prominent school of American composers who unselfconsciously blend all levels of American music.” (New York Times). Schickele’s Symphony No. 1 “Songlines” was premiered by the National Symphony under Leonard Slatkin and has since received performances by the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and other preeminent orchestras. His Symphony No. 2 “The Sweet Season” was premiered by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra under Stefan Sanderling. Select other commissions include the Concerto for Chamber Orchestra, performed at the OK Mozart Festival with Ransom Wilson conducting; New Goldberg Variations, performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax; Lincoln at Ease, for narrator and orchestra, commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra under Jorge Mester; A Year in the Catskills for woodwind quintet, commissioned and recorded by the Blair Woodwind Quintet; New Century Suite, a concerto for saxophone quartet and orchestra commissioned by the New Century Saxophone Quartet; Music for Orcas Island, for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival; Blue Set No. 1, a jazz string quartet commissioned by the Greene Quartet; and Serenade for String Trio and String Quintet No. 2, premiered by the Armadillo String Quartet.
