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 has published three of his compositions and five more will be in print this year. His song cycle “E.E. Cummings-Verbatim” was performed in Paramus, New Jersey, and Briarcliff, New York, featuring soprano Eileen Clark, clarinetist Jeremy Goldsmith, and pianist Hui-Mei-Lin. One of his newest compositions, Pianos Dueling (2009) for two pianos, four hands, was performed recently in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut by pianists Hui-Mei Lin and Bari Mort. 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. From 2004-2009, he was the Director of Music for the Children’s Aid Society Chorus program where he administered to 18 choruses (K-12) and directed five in New York City. Peter’s two select choirs from Children’s Aid 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 in April, 2008 in Maryland.

Peter is currently the choral teacher at the Rye Middle/High School in Rye, New York. Mostly recently, he has been selected to conduct the Elementary All-County (Westchester) Chorus (gr. 4-6) at the All-County Music Festival, featuring one of his published compositions, Oh Suzanna. His choral arrangements of Shenandoah and Wayfarin’ Stranger were recently premiered by “Sing We Enchanted,” a professional a cappella group in Westchester County in May.