Peter Krauss has two CDs of original piano music - Original Piano Compositions and Dream Collage

Peter Krauss Composition - Tango and Etude currently playing

Peter Krauss graduated both Oberlin Conservatory and Julliard Music School.   He studied under Bronson Ragan and is a virtuoso classical pianist and organist who composes in the Eastern European style.

Peter received the 2004-2005 Individual Artist's Fellowship Grant in Music Composition presented by the Dutchess County Council of the Arts.   This award was presented for Peter's Etude and Variations, which is comprised of 6 movements, and is included in Peter Krauss - Original Piano Compositions.

The Tango, Variation and Etude is a passionate distillation of Latino and Eastern European schools of composition.

Peter Krauss - Original Piano Compositions includes the following compositions:

Nocturne Variations in f minor

1. Nocturne No. 1
2. Nocturne and Polonaise
3. Nocturne
4. Prelude in d sharp minor
5. Prelude in c minor
6. Nocturne in A flat

Hudson River Etudes I - VI

7. I Passacaglia
8. II Agitato
9. III Song of the Cello
10. IV Allegro Con Fuoco
11. V Tango
12. VI Variation and Etude

13. Étude in D flat major

14. Chorale Prelude - Warum betrübst du dich mein Herz

"Dream Collage is a minimalist meditative soundscape that employs repeated rhythmic metaphors which gradually evolve into patterns that seem to hang in space."

-Jonathan Dickau

Dream Collage - a meditative journey is comprised of the following:

1. Dream Collage
2. Childhood Fantasy
3. Billowing Snow
4. Solitude