Nick Peros

Nick Peros (born March 17, 1963) is a Canadian classical composer. He bases his musical work on symphonic, orchestral, choral, vocal, and chamber genres and is also a published author. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. Compositions and recordings Peros’ catalogue of works includes compositions for a cappella chorus, accompanied solo voice, solo instrumental works, as well as chamber and orchestral works. Vocal Peros’s vocal works are primarily songs for solo voice and piano and are settings of various poetic texts, including texts by Emily Brontë, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, A.E. Housman, William Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, et al. His CD Songs (Phoenix Records, 2000), performed by soprano Heidi Klann and pianist Alayne Hall, features thirty-one songs for voice and piano, seventeen of which are settings of the poetry of Brontë, with a number of those being the first time her poems have been set to music. Choral Peros’s choral works focus largely on a cappella motets, composed for two to five part choruses and characterized by both homophonic and polyphonic textures. Peros’ debut CD Motets (Phoenix Records 1999), Prayer of Consolation is a large-scale a cappella choral wor