{"id":7656,"date":"2025-06-04T14:09:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/?page_id=7656"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:10:27","slug":"pete-meechan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/festivals-and-workshops\/avenues-exploring-band-and-jazz-methods-2025\/pete-meechan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Meechan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7605\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/festivals-and-workshops\/avenues-exploring-band-and-jazz-methods-2025\/unknown-1-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1709,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Unknown-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-200x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-684x1024.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7605 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-684x1024.jpeg 684w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-768x1150.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-1367x2048.jpeg 1367w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-250x374.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-640x959.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1-940x1408.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/files\/Unknown-1-1.jpeg 1709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The music of Canadian-British composer Peter Meechan is extensively performed throughout the world. His music has been commissioned, recorded, broadcast and performed by some of the world\u2019s leading symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, brass bands, conductors and soloists, including: \u201cThe President\u2019s Own\u201d United States Marine Band, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra brass, Black Dyke Brass Band, Bramwell Tovey, Jens Lindemann, Ryan Anthony, Patrick Sheridan, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being featured at festivals and clinics globally, Meechan\u2019s music has received over 130 commercial recordings.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, Meechan was awarded the CBA (Canadian Band Association) \u2018Canadian Composers\u2019 Award\u2019 \u2013 only the 9th recipient since the award\u2019s inception in 1991. In 2010 Meechan\u2019s work Episodes and Echoes was awarded the ITEA Harvey G. Phillips Award for Excellence in Composition, in his work Perpetua was the winner of the American Bandmasters Association 2022 Sousa-ABA-Ostwald Composition Contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music of Canadian-British composer Peter Meechan is extensively performed throughout the world. His music has been commissioned, recorded, broadcast and performed by some of the world\u2019s leading symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, brass bands, conductors and soloists, including: \u201cThe President\u2019s Own\u201d United States Marine Band, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra brass, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"parent":5507,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7656","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7657,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7656\/revisions\/7657"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}