Rachel J. Peters -- Music Theatre Writer
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RP NEWS

Check out Mary Testa singing Mediocre Man!

May 20th through June 2nd I will be at the John Duffy Composers Institute in Norfolk, VA developing Companionship. Public presentation of scenes will happen on June 2nd at 2:30 in the Chandler Recital Hall at Old Dominion University.

June 10th at 7:00 p.m. A short set of my songs will be part of Ars Nova's AntTunes. Additional lyrics by Royce Vavrek and Robert Maddock. Featuring Sarah Corey, Michael Marcotte, Matt Castle (music direction/piano), and Ann Bermont (violin). 511 W. 54th Street at 10th Ave.Tickets are $15.  More info here.

July 11th and 13th My one-minute opera Monkey Do debuts in New York and in Baltimore at Area 405 under the auspices of Rhymes With Opera.

August 2013 A song commission from the Walt Whitman Project to premiere at the Hudson Guild.

                                                                                                                
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April 20th at 8:00 p.m. and April 21st at 2:00 p.m.
Voces Feminae from Mount Holyoke joined the chorus at BayPath College to premiere And Then, my choral setting of Judy Chicago's
Merger Poem as part of BayPath's Prism: A Celebration of Women in the Arts on their Longmeadow, Massachusetts campus.

April 19th at 1:00 p.m. and April 20th at 11:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. My new short musical,Tomato Red, premiered as part of the UC Irvine New York
Satellite
Program's 4@15 at the Playroom Theater. Repeat performances at UC Irvine later this year--details to come.

April 18th at 8:00 p.m.  Composer Spotlight evening at the Indian Road Cafe courtesy of NoName Presents: The Uptown Cabaret!.Featuring Angela Birchett, Liz Lark Brown, Alex de Suze, and Karla Faggard. Scott Ethier and I took turns at the piano, guitar cameo by Scott Murphy. 

February 1st Amanda Pabyan premiered my setting of Music for a While at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

January 21st Mary Testa sang Mediocre Man as part of the Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers Launch Concert.
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