| Conductor, composer, arranger,
pianist, Peter Mansfield is a native Bostonian, having majored in music
at Harvard College where he studied with Eliot Forbes, Luise Vosgerchian,
Ivan Tcherepnin and F. John Adams.
His career began while an undergraduate at Harvard, where he arranged for, and eventually directed the world-famous Harvard Krokodiloes. He would go on to arrange over 70 songs for the group, many of which are still an integral part of the Kroks' repertoire. Following graduation, Peter enjoyed a 20 year tenure as Music Director and later, Music Supervisor of the renowned Hasty Pudding Theatricals. It was during this time that he met and apprenticed under acclaimed conductor and Boston Pops arranger Eric Knight. Mr. Mansfield later went on to study conducting with James Yannatos, chairman of Harvard's conducting department, and with nationally prominent Pops conductor and arranger Newton Wayland. It was from Mr. Wayland that in 1981, he inherited the position of Artistic Director and Conductor of Adventures In Music, greater Boston's only professional orchestra series for young audiences. Also in 1981, Mr. Mansfield began an affiliation with The Boston Pops Orchestra, where he has worked under maestros John Williams and Keith Lockhart as pianist, arranger/orchestrator, and music coordinator of several Evening at Pops P.B.S. television specials, featuring such artists as Wynton Marsalis, George Benson, Leontyne Price, Tommy Tune and The Big Apple Circus. It was also with the Boston Pops that his original composition "Casey At The Bat" was premiered with legendary broadcaster Curt Gowdy reciting the famous poem, and most recently, during the summer of 2004. Since 1985, Mr. Mansfield's symphonic arrangements have been performed by many major U.S. orchestras, and his arrangements are now represented in the catalog of G. Schirmer, Inc. in New York. In September of 1988, he became Conductor and Music Director of Concert On Ice, the first-ever international tour featuring Olympic and World Champion figure skaters in concert with major U.S. and Canadian orchestras, for which he has conducted the orchestras of Atlanta, Dallas, Omaha, Pasadena, San Diego, Seattle, Spokane and Vancouver, as well as the American Symphony Orchestra, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the Philadelphia Pops, the National Symphony Orchestra, and in a special national television production in 1995, the Houston Symphony.
Mr. Mansfield served as Pops conductor of the Kansas City Symphony during the 1997-98 season, and he has also guest-conducted Pops programs
for The Hartford (several programs in 2003-2004), Milwaukee, New Hampshire and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, as
well as The Hudson Valley Philharmonic. |
LATEST PROJECTS (updated regularly) Elisabeth Von Trapp - Arrangements & Orchestrations Various Concerts 2007-2008
Event Of The Year "To Fly " May 23-25, 2008 Boston Conservatory Theater Division Bernstein Tribute May 9th, 10th; June 3d, 2008
The Best of Broadway, Jazz & Hollywood August 23, 2008
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"Peter has long been a fine conductor, and the orchestras I've seen him conduct have appreciated and responded well to his conducting style. He also relates well to audiences, which have responded very warmly. I think his strongest asset is his willingness to bring his programming and arranging skills to his appearances. Orchestra musicians and audiences alike seem to really appreciate his programming, and particularly his own arrangements, which are well crafted, musical, listenable, and show well the talents of the orchestra." Keith Powell- Orchestra Manager The Hartford Symphony June 2004 |
In other symphonic and classical projects, Mr. Mansfield has served as arranger/ orchestrator for such vocal artists as Evelyn Lear and Neil Rosenshein of the Metropolitan Opera, and since 1987, he has served as arranger/ orchestrator for the Themes Foundation of Hilton Head, SC, which commissions the work of world-renowned pops harpsichordist Donald Angle. In December 2005 Peter began an ongoing relationship as arranger/ orchestrator for Elisabeth Von Trapp, granddaughter of the famous Captain Von Trapp. In the theater world, Peter Mansfield has served as music director/ conductor and arranger for several regional professional theaters, including the St. Louis MUNY and the Next Move Theater in Boston, as well as the theater division of The Boston Conservatory, where he joined the faculty in September 2005. In March 2007, he served as Music Director/ Arranger/ Orchestrator for the BoCo world premier production Heaven and Hell, which received glowing reviews. In 1986, he began an ongoing journey as Music Supervisor/ Arranger and Orchestrator of the Broadway-bound new musical "Only A Kingdom," which has enjoyed successful regional runs in Virginia, North Carolina and Pasadena, CA. Since 1985 Mr. Mansfield has composed, arranged and conducted music for Jacques d'Amboise and The National Dance Institute in New Hampshire, New York City, Boston, Maine and Vermont . He has also composed music for the PBS television network (the main title theme to the popular series "The Victory Garden"), as well as Champion Sportswear and Elizabeth Taylor Perfume television advertisements, and in 1996 he adapted, composed, arranged and performed the full soundtrack to a CD-ROM multi-media documentary on the life of Abraham Lincoln, released worldwide jointly by Simon and Schuster publishers and Sunburst Communications. Peter Mansfield lives with his wife Julie and daughters Emily and Olivia in suburban Boston. For his conducting activity, he is exclusively
represented by John Gingrich Management
in New York.
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