Perry Townsend

Perry Townsend’s music can be heard on American Modern Recordings and Ravello Records, and has been performed at Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, Tenri Cultural Institute, and Roulette. He has been commissioned by Bowdoin International Music Festival and Barbad Chamber Orchestra, and has premiered works at the ppIANISSIMO Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the Fontainebleau Summer Festival. As a vocalist, he has sung with the Choir of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin and Canticum Novum. As a conductor, he leads the Angelic Voices Youth Choir at Incarnation parish in Hollis, NY. At Copland School of Music he studied with Thea Musgrave, and at N.C. School of the Arts with Sherwood Shaffer. Currently, he’s working on an opera about Christine Miller, the lone dissenter at Jim Jones’ Guyana commune in 1978. Once long ago, John Cage heard Perry’s music and had nice things to say about it.