Peter Ellefson

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Peter Ellefson is a musician and staff member at the Indiana University

[edit] Education

His initial study was with Warren Baker at Linfield College, in McMinnville, Oregon, from which Mr. Ellefson graduated cum laude in 1984. Mr. Ellefson also holds a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University. Over the next 20 years, Mr. Ellefson studied with many of the finest low brass teachers including Joseph Alessi, Frank Crisafulli, Edward Kleinhammer, Jay Friedman, Arnold Jacobs, Mark Lawrence and M. Dee Stewart.

[edit] Career

Peter Ellefson plays Bach trombones and is an artist for Conn-Selmer, Inc.

Between 1992 and 2002, he had been a member of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. During his decade in Seattle], he made dozens of recordings with the orchestra, playing trombone, euphonium and bass trumpet and served as principal trombone for Seattle Opera’s renowned productions of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Mr. Ellefson has participated in hundreds of recording sessions for motion pictures, IMAX, television and video games, working with such composers as Elmer Bernstein, James Newton Howard, Basil Poledouris and Bill Conti. He has also backed entertainers as diverse as Linda Ronstadt, Burt Bacharach, Frank Sinatra Jr., Ray Charles, James Taylor, The Manhattan Transfer, and Yes. He also recently toured with the chamber ensemble Proteus 7[1].

In August 2002 he joined the staff at Indiana University. Since his arrival in Bloomington, Mr. Ellefson has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic Brass Quintet.

Peter Ellefson has a keen interest in chamber music and solo literature and has given concerto performances of works by such composers as Bloch, Bourgeois, Dorsey, Grondahl, Guilmant, Larsson, Pryor, Pugh, Serocki, Tomasi, Rimsky-Korsakov. He has extensive knowledge in the repertoire of both orchestral and chamber music and is also well acquainted with the commercial and jazz idioms.