Peter Sheridan & Claire Cooper
Biographie Peter Sheridan & Claire Cooper
Peter Sheridan
A specialist in low flutes (bass, contrabass and sub-contrabass flutes), performer Peter Sheridan has commissioned over seventy compositions for these unique instruments.
He has recorded Hollywood soundtracks and has been a recipient of awards from Mannes College, University of Arizona, Aspen Music Festival, Ottorino Respighi Festival (Italy), American Composers Forum, and Santa Monica College.
A native of New York City, Peter has performed and taught in America, England and Australia. He has been a faculty member of numerous music faculties in Los Angeles and was a founding member of the Los Angeles Flute Quartet. He is now a Teaching Associate at Monash University, and a woodwinds instructor and band director at Donvale Christian College and Mazenod College in Australia.
He is an active soloist and chamber musician and his flutes can be heard on Albany, Innova, Warner Music Latina, Varese Sarabande and Move record labels.
Peter performs on Kotato and Fukishima bass and contrabass flutes, and Jelle Hogenhuis's subcontrabass and hyperbass flutes.
Claire Cooper
studied with John Winther at the Canberra School of Music, and later at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She spent five years as repetiteur and accompanist for the Victorian College of the Arts and was a member of staff at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne as an accompanist.
Claire worked extensively in Melbourne with major music organisations and festivals, and had an extensive and wide-ranging repertoire.
She suffered an acquired brain injury after being hit by a car in 2013 while cycling on the Upfield bike path in Melbourne which, sadly, has put an end to her musical career. She has spent two years largely in and out of Epworth's rehabilitation clinic. Her outlook is positive as she slowly rebuilds her life in country Victoria.
Move Records wishes her well in her expected many years of gradual recovery.
