PETER MANSFIELD
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.
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.