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• Associate Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music

Education:

• M.M. , Northwestern University, 1985
• B.A. , Linfield College, 1984

Background:

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Peter Ellefson was a member of the Seattle Symphony from 1992-2003. He did numerous recordings with the orchestra, playing trombone, euphonium, and bass trumpet. Mr. Ellefson was principal trombone in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Seattle Opera.

Mr. Ellefson has participated in hundreds of recording sessions for motion pictures, IMAX, television, and video games, working with such composers as Elmer Bernstein, James Newton Howard, Basil Poledouris, and Bill Conti. Mr. Ellefson has also backed entertainers as diverse as Burt Bacharach, Frank Sinatra Jr., Ray Charles, James Taylor, Manhattan Transfer, and YES.

Mr. Ellefson has a keen interest in chamber music and solo repertoire, as well as concerto performances of works by Bloch, Bourgeois, Dorsey, Grondahl, Guilmant, Larsson, Pryor, Pugh, Serocki, Tomasi, Rimsky-Korsakov, and others. He has extensive knowledge in the repertoire of orchestral and chamber music and the commercial and jazz idioms.