Peress, Maurice

Américain. Chef d’orchestre. Famille : parents (de Pologne et Irak), épouse Gloria Vando (poète), fille Loca Peress (actrice). Expérience : Chamber Brass Players (années 1960, tp), dir. Corpus Christi (Texas, 1962), Austin Symphony (1970-4), Kansas City Philharmonic (1974-80 : ‘Conductor Maurice Peress, the trumpeter who once worked as an assistant to Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic and who now conducts the Kansas City Philharmonic faces an unconventional series of concerts with the group’, Billboard 1975). Professeur : Aaron Copland School. Aut.- comp. : Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America’s Music and Its African American Roots (2004, Oxford Univ. Press), revision de la Black Brown and Beige de Duke Ellington.

Enregistrements

Amram, Shakespearean Concerto for tp, oboe & h (Washington LP 470, 9470) ; Telemann, Concerto for 3 tp (mx VS2117, avec Arthur Statter, Harry Peers, tp, Telemann Society Orch. dir Richard Schulze, Murray Hill LP 928817, Vox 590, 500590, Turnabout 4105, 34105, 34295-9) ; Chamber Brass Players (Tower Music, avec Gary Goren, tp, Brooks Tillotson, cor/h, Alan Raph, tb, Jay McAllister, tu : Bach, Hassler, Pezel, Reiche, Scheidt, Golden Crest LP 4008 ; Two- Hundred Years of Brass Music, avec James Spear, tp, B. Tillotson, cor/h, A. Raph, tb, J. McAllister, tu : Adson, G. Gabieli, Holborne, Pezel, Purcell, Reiche, Schein, Storl, Susato, Classic Editions LP 1039, MMO 6001-5) ; Music for Organ, Brass, and Percussion (1972, chef, avec E. Power Biggs, org, Columbia Brass and Percussion Ens. incl. Mel Broiles, Gerry Schwarz, Bob Nagel, John Ware, Ted Weiss, Jim Sakofsky, tp, Columbia MQ31193).

Vidéos

interv. (http://vimeo.com/42540615).