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David Peoples, DMA

David Peoples

Part-Time Faculty

Phone678-717-3917

Office locationMusic, 119A,

Area(s) of Expertise: Composition, Theory, Jazz, Musicology, Recording

Overview

David Peoples is a composer, presenter, and educator. David enjoys sharing his own and other composers’ new music in recitals. In 2021, he presented recitals featuring 75+ composers in 31 states through the National Association of Composers, Music Teachers National Association, Research on Contemporary Composition Conference, and Electrophonic Concerts. David also actively composes new music with recent performances by soloists, Luna Nova Music Ensemble, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Contemporary Chamber Players, West Point Band, and other performance groups — with premieres in North and Central America, Europe, and Asia. Additionally, he has enjoyed jazz premieres by the Jazz Surge with Randy Brecker, David Sanchez, Rufus Reid, and Gary Foster.  

Among other things, David has toured extensively; lived, studied, and performed in Los Angeles, Austin, Memphis, and Atlanta; and won numerous national and international awards for composition. David actively produces albums as a leader and technologist (each containing his compositions). Many of these albums feature a blended approach of live performance with fixed me