Peter Kopera

Peter Kopera
Pianist, Composer, Educator



A classically trained pianist, Peter is a graduate of the Crane School of Music, SUNY at Potsdam, has studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, England, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Music Education at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Peter has studied piano with Dr. Billy Taylor (Jazz at Kennedy Center/NPR), Vince Maggio (University of Miami) and Dr. Garik Pedersen (Eastern Michigan). In October of 2001, Peter released his first recording as a leader entitled Syndrome, which received local airplay on jazz programming for WDET 101.9, WEMU 89.1 and WLNZ 98.7. During 2003, Peter composed and recorded the musical score to the independently produced film, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge. Peter has performed with Dave Samuels, Dennis DeBlasio, Alvester Garnett, Sherman Irby, Ralphe Armstrong, and Jaribu Shahid among many others.



Buy my first CD "Syndrome" at Amazon.



Check out my first film project here:
http://www.owlcreekproductions.com/



This is where I teach:
http://homepage.mac.com/arthursmiddle/music/music.html