Background
Croton, Peter was born on August 11, 1957 in New York City.
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Peter Croton
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Bachelor of Music, Oberlin Conservatory Music, Ohio, 1979. Postgraduate, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel, Switzerland, 1983.
Career
His recorded repertoire includes music from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods, as well as his own compositions. His publications include a figured bass manual for classical guitarists and publications of compositions for voice and lute. Peter Croton began playing folk guitar as a child, and classical and jazz guitar as a teenager.
He began his lute studies with Loris Chobanian at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and continued with Eugen Müller-Dombois and Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
He has also appeared on numerous Civil Defense recordings. He specializes in instruments of the lute family, but also occasionally performs and records on romantic guitar and jazz guitar.
He teaches lute and thoroughbass at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, guitar-thoroughbass at the Conservatory of Music in Basel, and guitar-thoroughbass and historical performance practice at Bern University of the Arts (Musikhochschule). Since 2011 Peter Croton has been included in the Marquis Who"s Who in the World.
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United States
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1983
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Finalist, Toronto Guitar Society International Lute Competition, 1984. Recipient Honorary Mention, Concert Artist's Guild, 1983, Erwin Bodky award, Cambridge Society Early Music, 1984.Finalist, Toronto Guitar Society International Lute Competition, 1984. Recipient Honorary Mention, Concert Artist's Guild, 1983, Erwin Bodky award, Cambridge Society Early Music, 1984.