Charles Peck is a composer whose work has been called “daring” (Philadelphia Inquirer), “wild and shimmering” (Broad Street Review), and “substantial, personal, genuine” (Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music). His music, spanning a range of chamber and large ensembles, has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Albany and Columbus Symphonies, Alarm Will Sound, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, JACK Quartet, Sandbox Percussion, and Ji Hye Jung. Recently, Peck has received commissions from the Barlow Endowment, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the F-Plus Trio and has been named a winner of composition competitions with the New York Youth Symphony, the ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, Lake George Music Festival, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Red Note New Music Festival, Symphony in C, Boston New Music Initiative and the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Award, among others. His music has been featured at a variety of venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival, the Mizzou International Composers Festival, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Composer Institute, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, Cultivate at Copland House, the Mise-En Music Festival, and the New Music Gathering. Peck currently teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University.