Peter Gregson is a cellist and composer “working at the forefront of the new music scene” (The New Yorker) Recently, he has premiered works by composers including Tod Machover, Dan?el Bjarnason, Gabriel Prokofiev, Max Richter, J?hann J?hannsson, Steve Reich, and Sally Beamish; he collaborates with many of the world’s leading technologists, including Microsoft Labs, UnitedVisualArtists, Reactify and the MIT Media Lab. In demand for his work across major film and television soundtracks for composers including Lorne Balfe, Alex Heffes, Michael Price and many others, Spitfire Audio developed a sample library of Peter’s extended techniques and sounds from his blue, five-string electric cello, all recorded at Pixel, his studio at Tileyard Studios, London. The soundtrack to his first feature film, A Little Chaos, directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts, was nominated for the Public Choice award at the World Soundtrack Awards 2015.
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