Peter Colclasure

Next Saturday, I will be playing for a fundraiser. It’s free, it’s early, come on by! givebutter.com/LWawardsMayFun…

@focusfronting My wife is a professor of microbiology and makes groundbreaking scientific discoveries and is generally awesome.

@10kStonesPoet 12 years. My wife is my favorite person.

@nakedfoul Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the first two records

What's the biggest dip in quality for two consecutive albums?

Some new decoration for my studio. This is, as near as I can reconstruct from old day planners and journals, every place I have ever performed. Mostly with the Kissers, but also Smile Brigade, the Foghorns, Mercy Terrace, and solo shows as a pianist.

@NeilNevins @soonrightaway @indianloonie That movie was actually filmed in my hometown of Merrill Wisconsin. A few years ago the fake giant spider went up for sale on eBay, but it apparently was pretty dilapidated.

@soonrightaway @indianloonie nothing will ever top PACKERS WIN THE SUPERBOWL during huge mob shots

the original MST3K was a bunch of midwest college dropouts making jokes about what they thought was funny, so you get jokes about Mark Rothko and Brian Eno. the reboot MST3K is a bunch of LA career geek-comedy guys with the same set of cultural references as Ready Player One

@lowtheband I was a DJ at the University of Santa Clara radio station for almost a decade, and I delighted in eclectic playlists. I’d play Ray Charles, Mitski, and Arvo Pärt all in the same hour.

Local college radio here is pretty great. Student DJs are so wide open and random and they know and love the music. Pretty inspiring. Just heard Louis Armstrong then Nina Simone, into Scorpions. Heard Silver Apples the other day and had to stop and catch my breath and smile.

One week to New Ballet's annual Fast Forward showcase. This year I collaborated with my dear friend Mariana Sobral to create music for her piece Solace. Next Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Hammer Theater in San Jose.

Now up on Spotify and all streaming platforms. This piece was several years in the writing/recording/mixing. Very proud of it. Hugh Thompson, Jr. was a hero. open.spotify.com/track/3YG9CUSU…

Playing Arvo Pärt

@katiedimartin Piano teacher here. This book has all the hits. Moonlight Sonata, Clair de Lune, some Chopin preludes, etc.

Recording by French horn with the ultra-pro Cathleen Torres, for the Dreamers ballet

It’s #BandcampFriday! Here are some new releases from #JackStrawArtists to check out: @medejinmusic: medejin-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-gard… @ColclasurePeter: petercolclasure.bandcamp.com/album/my-lai Nada Rosa: nadarosa.bandcamp.com/album/nunca-te… @AmyDenio, Kai Strandskov, James Hoskins: amydenio.bandcamp.com/album/ping-pon…

@MattGallagher0 I wrote a piano quintet about Thompson: petercolclasure.bandcamp.com/track/my-lai-i…

Hugh Thompson.

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@Eve6 Park life!

@ColclasurePeter “Hugh Thompson, Jr.” is the piece’s second movement. The recording is available for purchase at petercolclasure.bandcamp.com/album/my-lai Listen at jackstraw.org/podcasts/artis… #WhereEverYouGetYourPodcasts! Applications for our artist residency programs are now open! #JackStrawArtists

Check out this week’s episode of our Artist of the Week #podcast! @ColclasurePeter‘s My Lai, a new work for piano and string quartet based on the My Lai Massacre, was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and performed by Peter and Skyros Quartet.

A few years ago I wrote a three-movement piece for piano and string quartet based on the My Lai massacre. This is the second movement of the work, inspired by his heroism. petercolclasure.bandcamp.com/track/my-lai-i…