Malcolm Peyton

Malcolm C. Peyton ( born January 12, 1932) is an American composer and music educator.

Peyton studied music at Princeton University. He studied composition with Roger Sessions and Edward Cone and piano student of Edward helmsman. With a Fulbright Scholarship, he continued his education in Germany continues with Wolfgang Fortner. At the Tanglewood Music Center he attended summer courses at Aaron Copland and Irving Fine.

He teaches contemporary music at the New England Conservatory of Music. Among his students, among others Gamma Skupinsky, Elliott Miles McKinley, Rodney Lister, Lee Hyla, Pang Chun- ting and Daniel Shore. He worked as a conductor and musician with concerts in Boston and New York, among others at The Composers Series in the Jordan Hall of the New England Conservatory. He received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Norlin Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Works

• Apostrophe for choir, soloists and orchestra
• Fantasies Concert Antes for orchestra
• String Quartet No.. 1
• String Quartet No.. 2
• Four Songs from Shakespeare
• Songs from Walt Whitman
• Sonnets from John Donne

Swell

• New England Conservatory - Malcolm C. Peyton
• Mimesis Ensemble - Malcolm Peyton
• Boston Modern Orchestra Project - Malcolm Peyton

• Music teacher
• American composer
• Born in the 20th century
• Man