Wayne Peterson (1960) Professor Emeritus of Music B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota; advanced study, Royal Academy of Music (England)

Composer and pianist Wayne Peterson is the 1992 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music. His works have been performed by the San Francisco, Oakland, and Minnesota orchestras, the Group for Contemporary Music, Speculum Musicum, the Washington Square Players, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Mr. Peterson has recently completed compositions for the American Composers Orchestra in New York City and the San Francisco Symphony, as well as a piece for the Alexander String Quartet, commissioned by the Gerbode Foundation and a work for the Earplay Ensemble of San Francisco, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation. Other recent honors include a Composer's Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1986) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989-90). His music is published by C. F. Peters, Boosey and Hawkes, Lawson-Gould and Seesaw Music. Click here for information on the Wayne Peterson Prize in Music Composition.