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 Music director of the Stockton Symphony, Peter Jaffe is credited with fostering sustained artistic growth throughout his fourteen year tenure. He is recipient of the inaugural Denis DeCoteau Award from the Association of California Symphony Orchestras and the Stockton Top Arts Recognition Award from the Stockton Arts Commission. With the Stockton Symphony’s subscription series, Mr. Jaffe has earned accolades for his preconcert discussions, which include playing musical examples in his own piano transcriptions. Mr. Jaffe has been a frequent guest on several radio and television programs in California, and a portion of his CD with the Stockton Symphony of Chris Brubeck’s Mark Twain’s World was broadcast nationally on NPR’s Performance Today.
His recent conducting appearances include Symphony Silicon Valley, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the New Mexico, Flagstaff and Long Beach Symphony Orchestras and many others. He spent three seasons as conductor and director of orchestral activities at the Oberlin Conservatory. For nine seasons he has served as music director for the Stockton Opera Association. Mr. Jaffe has taught at the Conductor’s Institute of South Carolina since 2000 and was a resident conductor and faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival for fourteen years. Several of Mr. Jaffe’s own arrangements have been commissioned by and performed with orchestras in Aspen, Chicago, Long Beach and Stockton.
His instrumental background includes extensive performing on the violin, viola and keyboard; and he often conducts from the harpsichord when performing Baroque or early Classic repertoire. |
