Peter Boyer

The music of composer Peter Boyer has been performed more than 500 times by some 200 orchestras around the U.S. and beyond. In 1996, he joined the faculty at Claremont Graduate University in California, where he continues to teach as of the early 2020s. Boyer established his own publishing company, Propulsive Music, in 2003. In 2001, Boyer conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in an album of his own works. 2003's Ellis Island: The Dream of America featured the Philharmonia Orchestra. The Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart commissioned Boyer's The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers in 2012; the premiere performance was narrated by actors Robert De Niro, Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman. Several of Boyer's works were included on the 2022 London Symphony Orchestra release Balance of Power: Orchestral Works.