AboutOfficial Site: http://www.gervasedepeyer.com/Gervase de Peyer is one of the finest musical interpreters of our time, on any instrument, having performed at centre stage for nearly half a century. In addition to performances and recordings of the standard clarinet repertoire, he has premiered at least ten concertos, some of which are dedicated to him, including works by Berthold Goldschmidt, Alun Hoddinott, Joseph Horovitz, William Mathias and Thea Musgrave. Gervase de Peyer has also premiered and recorded many other works such as the Francis Poulenc Sonata and the Joseph Horovitz Sonatina as well as chamber works by Robert Simpson, Malcolm Arnold, Nicholas Maw, Arnold Cooke and Elizabeth Maconchy. His recording awards include first prizes from the Academy Charles Gros (Spohr and Weber Concertos) and The Plaque of Honour from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Mozart Concerto). These are available on Decca/Polygram CD's. Maestro Josef Kripps selected Gervase de Peyer as his principal clarinettist for the London Symphony Orchestra in 1956, a position he held for seventeen years whilst continuing an active solo and chamber music career. Several early chamber music tours for the Arts Council of Great Britain led to his leading role in the formation of the Melos Ensemble of London. Gervase directed the Melos Ensemble's extensive recording programme for EMI and these highly praised recordings are now happily available on CD. Gervase de Peyer's American concerto debut was with Sir George Solti in a Weber concerto and he looks back on concerto performances with a long line of great musicians including Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Berthold Goldschmidt and conductors Antal Dorati, Pierre Monteux, Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Istvan Kertesz and Sir John Barbirolli, to name but a few. From 1969, his LSO position and the success of the Melos Ensemble overlapped his engagements as a founder member of the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center, a group he performed with for twenty years. This engagement eventually resulted in his making New York his home. Amongst many distinguished colleagues were Jaime Laredo, Richard Goode, Paula Robison and a succession of guest artists including Itzhak Perlman, Andre Watts, Kyung-Wha Chung, Pierre Boulez and Leonard Bernstein. Gervase de Peyer has played Peter Eaton clarinets since 1985 and his recent series of recordings on Radiant Mastery were recorded almost entirely on these instruments.
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