Peter Zummo
Born: 1948
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Peter Zummo had instrument training, trombone, and other winds with the legendary Carmine Caruso, and also studied with Roswell Rudd, Jim Fulkerson, didgeridoo with Stuart Dempster, electronic music with Alvin Lucier, and was in the world music program at Wesleyan University. Zummo's many compositions for ensemble (including Zummo Labs, the Environmental Combo, etc.) build on original melody and melodic fragments, generating interactive
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by "Blue" Gene Tyranny
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| Peter Zummo had instrument training, trombone, and other winds with the legendary Carmine Caruso, and also studied with Roswell Rudd, Jim Fulkerson, didgeridoo with Stuart Dempster, electronic music with Alvin Lucier, and was in the world music program at Wesleyan University. Zummo's many compositions for ensemble (including Zummo Labs, the Environmental Combo, etc.) build on original melody and melodic fragments, generating interactive situations for musicians. Radical Filtering premiered at the BAM Next Wave Festival, Semiotic Handgun premiered at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, and Fast Dream at the Boston Opera House. Of his many commissions and grants is music for dancer Trisha Brown's Newark and Lateral Pass and several other dance and theater works. |
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