Peter Togni

Peter- Anthony Togni ( born September 12, 1959 in Pembroke, Ontario ) is a Canadian musician and composer.

Life

Togni grew up in Toronto, where he attended St. Michael's Choir School. Later he studied organ and composition at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He then studied in Paris organ and improvisation at the famous organist Jean Langlais. In Allain Gaussin at the Schola Cantorum, he continued his studies, where he won the first prize in composition.

Togni composed since 1989 Music for choir, orchestra, film, and for individual instruments. He gave solo concerts and performances with his trio Sanctuary in Canada, USA, Europe and Asia. In addition, he hosts for over twenty years broadcasts at CBC / Radio -Canada in Halifax. In 2006 his composition Illuminations, nominated a concert for bass clarinet and strings, for the Juno Award.

Since 2009, he also plays in a trio with Tom Roach, drums and Jamie Getti, bass music from the fields of jazz, pop and classical music. 2010 his work Lamentations of Jeremiah was recorded for bass clarinet and choir with the bass clarinetist Jeff Reilly and the Elmer Iseler Singers in ECM. This work has been nominated for the 2011 East Coast Music Award and for the Juno Award.

Peter- Anthony Togni lives and works in Pembroke, Canada as a musician, composer and radio host. He regularly lectures and teaches master classes in organ and improvisation.

Music

Peter Anthony Tognis works are conceived spiritually. They radiate a meditative mood with atmospheric force. His compositions are characterized by their dissonances, clusters and minimal tone steps a technically very demanding music with profound, timeless force without effects. Although Tognis music sometimes recalls the spirituality of old traditions of a Monteverdi or Bach, it is thoroughly modern and aesthetically. It is characterized by complexity, and imbued with a deep sense of spirituality.

Discography (selection)

  • Sanctuary, XXIIIRecords, 2001
  • Refuge, Haussler Classics, 2003
  • The heart Has Its Reasons, Warner Classics, 2005
  • Lamentations of Jeremiah, ECM, 2010

Works (selection)

Choir

  • When the Dawn Appears, SSAA *, 1989
  • Create in me a clean heart, SATB, 1990
  • Ave Verum SATB, 1994
  • Psalm 98 SATB, 1997
  • Grandmother Moon - f double choir SATB soloists & 2001
  • Of the Fathers Love Begotten, SATB, 2003
  • Lamentations of Jeremiah, SATB and bass clarinet, 2007
  • Requiem of Light, mixed chorus, 2009
  • Lux Aeterna, f & Gamelan six voices, 2010

* S = Soprano A = Alto T = Tenor, B = bass

Instrumental

  • Tenebrae Litanies, f Strings, 1991
  • Hymns of Heaven and Earth, string quartet (No. 1 ), 2001
  • Caspian Blue, f piano & string quartet, 2004
  • O Magnum Mysterium, solo piano, 2007
  • Personal Legend, string quartet (No. 2 ), 2008
  • Seven Preludes, f Organ, 2010
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