Peter Askim

Peter Askim is an American composer of modern classical music, conductor, music educator and a double bassist. Background Born in Denmark, to a Norwegian father and an American mother, he grew up in Cumberland, Maine. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, and holds bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees from Yale University. He also holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from the University of Texas at Austin. He studied composition with Dan Welcher, Donald Grantham, Anthony Davis, Jan Radzynkski, Syd Hodkinson and David Finko. His double bass instructors were George Rubino, Diana Gannett, Donald Palma, Wolfgang Harrer and Ludwig Streicher. Musical career Active as a composer, conductor and double bassist, Peter Askim is currently the music director and composer-in-residence of the Idyllwild Arts Academy. He has been a member of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, and served on the faculty of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he directed the Contemporary Music Ensemble and taught bass, theory and composition. Numerous orchestras, music festivals and performers have commissioned work from Askim, including the Tokyo Symphony Orche