Peter Sheridan
Peter Sheridan is a low-flute specialist whose bass, contrabass, subcontrabass and hyperbass playing has opened a new sound world through more than seventy commissions and a substantial body of recordings.
He has recorded Hollywood soundtracks and received awards from Mannes College, the University of Arizona, the Aspen Music Festival, the Ottorino Respighi Festival in Italy, the American Composers Forum and Santa Monica College.
A native of New York City, he has performed and taught in America, England and Australia. He served on numerous music faculties in Los Angeles and was a founding member of the Los Angeles Flute Quartet. In Australia he is a Teaching Associate at Monash University and a woodwinds instructor and band director at Donvale Christian College and Mazenod College.
An active soloist and chamber musician, his flutes can be heard on the Albany, Innova, Warner Music Latina, Varèse Sarabande and Move labels.
He performs on Kotato and Fukushima bass and contrabass flutes, and on Jelle Hogenhuis’s subcontrabass and hyperbass flutes.
Artist's website: www.lowflutes.com
Peter Sheridan is featured on the following titles
Dances and Delights
Premiere recordings of Australian and American works for modern flute ensemble fill this album with spirit and serenity, from waltzes and two-steps to cherished song arrangements.
Continental Drift
Continental Drift features compositions for two bass flutes and cello. As the Earth’s continents drift across the ocean floor, new music makes its own slow migration around the globe, across time and space into various lands and cultures.
Sonorous Sonatas
Peter Sheridan set out to bring the larger, lower flutes to centre stage, testing their sound and colour within one of Western music’s most traditional forms: the sonata. Commissioned works and substantial duo writing put alto, bass, contrabass and subcontrabass flutes in the foreground.
Fantasie Australis
Compositions by living Australian composers, most based in Melbourne, performed by the Monash University Flute Ensemble under Peter Sheridan. Australia’s flute-ensemble repertoire is still small beside other national traditions, yet the country has a rich store of fine woodwind writing.
Monologues & Dialogues
This recording features the resonant, meditative colours of modern low flutes. Austere, breathy and at times eerie, these deep registers open a sound-world still little explored in woodwind writing, and invite a wide range of musical imaginings.
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Below: Music for Low Flutes
This charming and rare recording features predominantly commissioned chamber music for low flutes, written to showcase their lyrical and colourful tonal qualities and to expand a small yet growing repertoire.
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Peter Sheridan also appears on
Move 50
Twenty-four Australian composers mark Move Records’ fiftieth year with short new works gathered on this commemorative disc.
PRTZL
This release of original compositions by Harvey centres on the monumental Piano Sonata No. 4, a homage to the anti-fascist Antonio Gramsci. That theme runs through solo and ensemble works whose moods range from nostalgically whimsical to furiously satirical.