Peter Josheff has been a distinguished composer, clarinetist, and advocate for contemporary music in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 25 years. Josheff received his training at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he studied composition with Leslie Thimmig; and the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied composition with Olly Wilson, Andrew Imbrie and Edwin Dugger. He has composed instrumental and vocal music, opera and pop songs, as well as music for dance and theater. His music has been performed by the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the Farallon Quintet, the Laurel Ensemble, the Bernal Hill Players, Earplay, Sonic Harvest, the Empyrean Ensemble, Melody of China, Goat Hall Productions, and many individual performers. His vocal music has been performed by singers Jeremy Galyon, Christine Schadeberg, Brian Thorsett, Adam Flowers, Eliza O’Malley and many others. As a clarinetist and bass clarinetist Peter is one of the foremost performers of contemporary music in northern California. He has premiered and performed hundreds of works by a wide range of composers and has had numerous pieces composed for him. He has appeared on many recordings, concert series and festivals, both nationally and internationally. He performs with Earplay, a San Francisco-based new music ensemble he co-founded in 1985, and is also a member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Empyrean Ensemble, and the Eco Ensemble. He has also performed and toured with Melody of China and with the Paul Dresher Ensemble.
Peter Josheff
Studios
Veltin
Peter Josheff worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…