Gretchen Peregrine received her
B.M. in Piano Performance from CSULB, and her M.M. in Piano
Performance
from BYU. She has also studied at North Texas State and in
Vienna, Austria. Ms. Peregrine joined Saddleback
College as full-time Staff Accompanist in 1993, providing
a full range of accompaniment to vocal, instrumental, and choral
activities
at the college, including guest recitals, master classes, faculty
recitals, and coaching the applied music students in their
vocal/instrumental programs. She also teaches Applied (private)
and Class Piano,
MUS
1, and MUS1 and MUS 54 ONLINE. Her book "Music Basics
with Online Resources," is available for the classroom
and for self-study. A
coordinating Piano Supplement is also available. Other
publications include a two piano/four hand arrangement of J.S.
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, as well as many sacred choral
& instrumental arrangements.
In Jan '02 she was also hired as Adjunct Faculty choral ensemble
director and piano instructor at SOKA
University.
Ms. Peregrine taught
class piano at CSULB and BYU, and has worked extensively
as a coach/accompanist
to many vocalists
and instrumentalists,
musical theatre groups, and chamber groups. She maintains
a rigorous performance schedule, and is enthusiastically
interested
in furthering
musical experiences in a variety of settings, including classical,
jazz, musical theatre, orchestral, and choral literature.
Performances include: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in
C minor, and Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F with Saddleback Symphony,
Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" (Aliso Viejo Symphony
Premiere Concert) and recitals with Timothy Fain, violin
(Recipient of the 2001 Avery Fisher Award) and William Fitzpatrick,
violin
(Juilliard Quartet, New York String Quartet, Aspen Music
School,) a duo-piano recital performing Stravinsky's "Rite
of Spring" with
Norm Weston, Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Major
with South Orange County Chamber Orchestra and Shostakovich
Piano
Concerto No. 2 with Saddleback Symphony.
CONCERT CLIPS
Soler
Sonata in D
Bach
Gigue (on Harpsichord)
Schubert
Impromptu in Db
Schubert
Trout Quintet
Rachmaninov
Cello and Piano Sonata
Liszt
Paganini Etude #6
Gershwin
Piano Concerto in F
Copland "Rodeo" Ballet
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2
Rite of Spring
Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Porgy
and Bess - violin and piano
Ewazen Sonata for French
Horn, Piano and Flute
Stravinsky
Piano Sonata
Ginastera
Piano Sonata
Stravin