Peter DEJAGER, PIANO
Peter de Jager is an ANAM Academy Musician, studying with Rita Reichman. He was born in South Africa in 1989 and relocated with his family to Australia when he was two years old. By the age of three he was playing simple tunes on the piano and began formal lessons with his mother two years later. Subsequently, Peter de Jager studied piano for five years with Nehama Patkin, during which time he gave numerous public performances, including playing several concerto movements with orchestra and regular appearances for the Austral Salon of Music, Literature and the Arts. In 2002 he began studying with Professor Stephen McIntyre and soon after achieved his LMusA. Recently Peter de Jager was awarded first place in the Junior Concerto and Junior Composition Sections of the Dandenong Festival of Music and Art for Youth, and has won both the Bill Borthwick and Chris Krantz Music Awards, conferred by the Dandenong Ranges Music Council. Later in 2005 he will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4 with the South Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Peter de Jager has been composing since he was aged five; his works include a number of chamber music compositions and a series of short pieces for solo piano.
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