Music and words
Canadian composer/lyricist
of boundary-pushing musicals
and surprising songs
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Music
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Unless otherwise specified, all music, text, and recordings copyright © Peter Cavell
ABOUT
Peter Cavell is a composer/lyricist, pianist, writer, and occasional thereminist.
He holds degrees in classical composition from the University of Western Ontario and the University of Victoria, where his music was described as "sarcastic", "very sarcastic", and “Peter, this wasn’t the assignment”. Since then, his works have been performed throughout Canada, the US, the UK, Holland, Bosnia, Singapore, Japan, and Australia.
For ten years, Peter worked as a Musical Director at the Second City Training Centre of Toronto, where he taught musical improv and composed or improvised music for hundreds of performances.
Peter delights in tackling unexpected stories and genres, experimenting with form, and turning tropes upside-down. His work sometimes touches on topics like mythology, ritual, religious baggage, sex/sexuality, and geek culture. Most of all, Peter loves to create living, breathing, character-driven musicals that blur the boundaries between comedy and drama, making you laugh and then sucker-punching you right in the feels.
An incorrigible Canadian, Peter lives in Toronto with his wife and their two young sons.
Contact
Drop Peter a line if you:
want to perform or get sheet music for something he wrote
are curious about commissioning a brand new piece of music, written just for you
saw a cool dog the other day and need to tell someone about it