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 William Peterson
Professor of Music and College Organist
Thatcher 104A,
(909) 621-8155,
william.peterson@pomona.edu
Expertise Profile
William Peterson is the Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher
Professor of Music and College Organist at Pomona
College. He received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of California, Berkeley. Earlier he received
the B.A. and B.M. degrees from Oberlin College and
Conservatory. At Pomona College he teaches organ and
courses in music history.
As a performer, he has played concerts in recent years
in many parts of the United States. He has performed a
number of all-Bach recitals at various locations,
including complete performances of Bach's Dritter
Theil der Clavierübung. In April of 2005 he played a
concert of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century German
music on the Taylor and Boody organ at the College of
the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, and in September of
2006 he played a concert of French music - "French Organ
Music from the Time of World War I" - on the Fisk organ
(Fisk, Op. 116) in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College and
Conservatory of Music. He played a concert on the
recently installed Fisk organ in the Christopher Cohan
Center in San Luis Obispo, CA in 2008.
As a scholar he has worked extensively on French organ
music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
He is co-editor with Lawrence Archbold of French
Organ Music from the Revolution to Franck and Widor
(University of Rochester Press, 1995, now in its third
printing), a volume which includes eleven articles by a
group of American and French authors. Peterson is author
of "Lemmens, His Ecole d'orgue, and Nineteenth-Century
Organ Methods" and co-author of an article focusing on
organ music during the French Revolution in that volume.
He presented a paper entitled "Cavaillé-Coll's Late
Style Reconsidered: A Classical Phase in the History of
French Organ Building?" at a conference at Oberlin in
2002. He is the author of "Organ Music in the Shadow of
the Great War: A Preliminary Investigation" published in
La Flûte harmonique (2007), a special issue
devoted to the proceedings of a conference held in Paris
and Reims in November of 2006. Research projects have
been supported by a Fulbright research grant, by the
Mellon Foundation (Mellon Summer Research Grant, 2005),
and by the Pomona College Research Committee.
In October of 2002 he played the Inaugural Concert on
the Hill Memorial Organ built by C.B. Fisk, of
Gloucester, MA (Fisk, Op. 117), for Bridges Hall of
Music at Pomona College. He was heard on "Pipedreams"
(National Public Radio) in a 2006 broadcast: the program
included music of Tournemire, Duruflé, and Widor
recorded in concerts he presented in Bridges Hall in
2002 and 2003. |
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