Peter Frost has been commissioned to write choral compositions by the Briarcliff Congregational Church, The Children’s Aid Society in New York City, and by the Great Neck North High School Jazz Choir. GIA Publications will be publishing nine of his compositions this year. Recently his new song cycle “E.E. Cummings-Verbatim” was performed in Paramus, New Jersey featuring soprano Eileen Clark, clarinetist Jeremy Goldsmith, and pianist Hui-Mei-Lin. Peter studies composition with Roger Ames.

He received his Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut and Master of Music degree in music education from Lehman College, City University of New York. He has performed with the Hartt Touring Opera in Connecticut, the California Opera Center at Notre Dame College in Belmont, California. As an actor-singer, he has appeared in musicals in summer stock, dinner theaters and regional theaters, as well as many dramatic plays with Bluestone Actors Project, a professional repertory company based in Westchester County, New York.

From 1992-2004, he was the music and theater arts teacher at the John Jay High School and the Rippowam Cisqua School in Westchester County where he directed several choruses (grades 5-12), musicals and dramatic plays. For twenty years, he has been a soloist and music director in various churches. He is currently the Music Director of the Children’s Aid Society Chorus program where he administers 18 choruses (K-12) and directs five in New York City. Peter’s two select choirs have recently performed in Carnegie Hall with Mandy Patinkin, The Rainbow Room with Donna Murphy, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Waldorf Astoria and Radio City Music Hall. The Children’s Aid Senior (HS) Chorus received a “superior” rating and first place over all this past April in Maryland.