Randolph Peters
Randolph Peters (born 28 December 1959) is a Canadian composer who is known for his output of roughly 100 film scores made mostly for Canadian films. Early life and education
Peters was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He graduated from the University of Winnipeg and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Career
Peters wrote a large amount of music for Canadian television, radio, dance and theatre. From 1996 to 2001 he was the composer-in-residence and curator for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; he also served as the director of that symphony's annual New Music Festival. Peters composed several operas for the Canadian Opera Company, of which the most successful was The Golden Ass, which was created with novelist Robertson Davies shortly before Davies' death. After Davies' death, COC director Richard Bradshaw worked with Peters to finalize the opera. The opera premiered in Toronto at the Hummingbird Centre in April, 1999. Selected works
 Meditation and celebration (1985)
 Dreaming-tracks : 1991 (1991)
 Crime wave (1985)
 Dancing on wings of fire : for diatonic button accordion (A/D) and orchestra (1994)
 Guiltless blood (1990)
 Sonata for violin and piano (1990)
 The golden ass (1999)
 Survivors : a mass for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (1994)

Sources

"Randolph Peters". The Canadian Encyclopedia. External links

https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/37612 on Canadian Music Centre
http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/petersr.htm on The Living Composers Project

1959 births
Living people
Canadian classical composers
Canadian male classical composers
Canadian film score composers
Canadian Mennonites
Male film score composers
Canadian television composers
Male television composers
Canadian opera composers
Male opera composers
University of Winnipeg alumni
Jacobs School of Music alumni
Musicians from Winnipeg
Mennonite musicians
20th-century Canadian composers
21st-century Canadian composers