Peter Brownlee

Bend
Piano
541-389-3290

Peter Brownlee made his concerto debut at age twelve with the Marin Youth Symphony. Later appearances include Barge Music (NYC), SF Chamber Orchestra, Sing It Yourself Messiah (SF), Huntington Library (LA), Harpsichord at St Gregory’s (SF), and King’s Chapel (Boston). Early teachers include Marilyn Thompson, Nancy Lyle Bennett and Istvan Nadas. After attending the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, his studies continued in New York with David Hollander, Sophia Rosoff and Albert Fuller.

He is a member of the Music Teachers National Association, Oregon Music Teachers Association (OMTA), the Royal Conservatory of Music and Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. He has contributed articles to various music journals including Continuo and Oregon Musician. He was consultant to producers of ‘Landowska: Uncommon Visionary’, a PBS music biography aired during the 1997-98 season. He is the principal founder and Artistic Director of the Cascades Classical Music Foundation.

He is in demand as lecturer (including University of Alberta at Edmonton; Western Early Keyboard Association, Reed College; San Francisco Conservatory of Music) and adjudicator (Junior Bach Festival at Berkeley; Seattle International Piano Competition; Music Teachers Association California; OMTA Bach Festival and other organizations). He maintains a full-time studio in Bend, Oregon. His students are frequent participants in world-class master classes and have appeared as soloists with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Aurora Borealis, Central Oregon Symphony Orchestra, and Cascade Festival Orchestra.