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, Mr. Mansfield 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. During the 2008 Pops season, Peter Mansfield had an active role with several projects. He was the Music Coordinator for the first edition of the Boston Pops High School Sing-Off, arranging and orchestrating Stephen Sondheim's Being Alive from Company for winner Katie Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard. And he arranged and orchestrated a new version of the famous duet One Hand, One Heart from West Side Story, part of the Pops season-long tribute to Leonard Bernstein. For the 2009 season, Peter has served as Music Coordinator and Arranger for the Boston Pops "Baseball Night" programs, and he created the arrangement and orchestration for a Boston Pops premier, Howlin' At The Moon- A Moon Tune Singalong for the Apollo 11 Anniversary concerts in Symphony Hall.

In September of 1988, Peter Mansfield 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

Von Trapp Music

Various Concerts

2010-2011

New Hampshire Dance Institute

Event Of The Year

"Are We There Yet?!"

May 21-23, 2010

"There are so many things this year we could not have accomplished without your help and guidance, including and especially the two arrangements "Being Alive" and "One Hand, One Heart". We'll look forward to working together again soon"

Dennis Alves

Director of Artistic Planning

The Boston Pops Orchestra

August 2008

"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 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 reknowned Theater Division of The Boston Conservatory, where he joined the faculty in September 2005 as Professor of Repertoire, Ensemble and Piano. 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.