Peter Dayton is a composer, pianist, and amateur illustrator. Combining Romantic forms and Modernist sonorities, Dayton creates instrumental, vocal, and choral music of emotional urgency and intimacy. While his works have been performed internationally, Dayton’s music lives and grows primarily through close artistic relationships with brilliant individual performing artists including Katie Procell, Chris Lowry, and Nick May. Dayton regularly curates public concerts within his immediate artistic community of Baltimore, Maryland. Additionally, he performs quarterly piano livestreams that combine, jazz standards, Classical, video game, film, and pop music into programs that engage a global audience. American Record Guide has noted Dayton as “a composer whose heart and care are palpable" and Opera News has praised his “fresh and interesting sounds.” Discography of Dayton’s music includes collections of his vocal and chamber music produced by Navona Records and appearances on various compilation albums. Dayton holds degrees in music from The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.  He is the Director of Operations at Arts Education in Maryland Schools (AEMS) and the author and illustrator of “A Trip to the Art Museum, with Herbert the Hoodleoo.”

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