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Peter Bowman

Peter Bowman Peter Bowman, Australian by birth, is a lecturer in music and teacher of recorder at Canterbury Christ Church University College. As a performer Peter has given numerous first performances of new works for recorder and is a member of the contemporary music group Ensemble QTR and the baroque ensemble Tirata. His teaching activities include giving workshops and extensive writing about recorder repertoire and technique. Peter has been a jury member for international recorder competitions and is a consultant for recorder to the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

Together with his duet partner Kathryn Bennetts he has performed throughout the UK, in Germany and the United States. Their programmes include music from the English renaissance through the popular baroque repertoire to the most recent contemporary music using electronics and computers. They have broadcast for Classic FM, BBC Radio 3, Radio Nederland and Lyric FM Dublin. Their CD recording A Journey Among Travellers has received wide critical acclaim.

Peter founded the European Recorder Teacher's Association (UK) in 1992 and was chairman until 2001.

Peter Bowman's research activities include:

Early Music Research undertaken in the course of preparing performing editions for use by all of the above ensembles has led to extensive study on manuscript and contemporary editions of works by Baldwin, Beddingham, Micho, Gibbons, Castello, Hilton, Philidor and Telemann including the preparation of a complete performing edition of the Oratorio 'Jephte' by Carissimi which was prepared for Canterbury Christ Church University College and has received several performances to date. Also of interest is the study of Baroque aesthetics including the use and meaning of keys, the use of musical-rhetorical devices, ornamentation in Baroque music and the application of the rules of classical proportion and numerology in the composition of Baroque music.

Contemporary Music Microtonal Recorder Project. Work in collaboration with recorder player Kathryn Bennetts and composer Donald Bousted resulted in the publication of the Quarter-Tone Recorder Manual (Moeck Verlag, 1998) and the subsequent recording with Kathryn Bennetts of Bousted's microtonal piece "A Journey Among Travellers".

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* Recorder students will study pieces from each of the four main areas of repertoire essential to a comprehensive and balanced understanding of the recorder and its music while still allowing the student scope to explore his or her own interests. These include baroque "mixed style", French baroque music, Italian baroque music and 20th century and contemporary music. The following sample syllabus is a guide only.