Hailed by the San Antonio Current as “consistently brilliant and impossibly cool,” Troy Peters has guest conducted many orchestras, including the Oregon Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and Round Rock Symphony. In 2016, Musical America featured him in their special issue, The MA30 Professionals of the Year: The Innovators. Peters serves as Orchestra Director at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Music Director of YOSA (Youth Orchestras of San Antonio). He was previously Music Director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra and Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, and conducted college orchestras at Texas State University and Middlebury College.

He has also gained international attention for his orchestral collaborations with rock musicians, including Jon Anderson (of the band Yes), Blind Pilot, and Trey Anastasio (of the band Phish), with whom he recorded two albums on Elektra Records. Peters conducted the world premiere recording of Daron Hagen’s Masquerade with violinist Jaime Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson, and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, on Bridge Records. Among the other soloists with whom he has collaborated are Branford Marsalis, Midori, Edgar Meyer, Time for Three, and Richard Stoltzman.

His work has been the subject of national media attention from CBS Sunday Morning, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, Symphony, and The New Yorker. Awarded a Vermont Arts Council Citation of Merit in 2009, he has also been honored with eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music and has conducted more than three-dozen world premieres. His work as a composer has been honored with the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from Meet the Composer and the Rockefeller Foundation. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Pennsylvania, where his primary compositional mentors were Ned Rorem and George Crumb.