Peter Zummo (born 1948) is an American composer and trombonist. He has
been described as “an important exponent of the American contemporary classical
tradition.” Meanwhile, he has been quoted as describing his own work as “Minimalism
plus a whole lot more.” Since 1967, Zummo’s compositions exploring the rock, jazz,
new- and electronic-music, disco, punk, and world-music idioms have been presented
in venues including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City Center,
Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop, and La MaMa Experimental
Theatre Club, among many others in New York City, as well as in numerous additional
spaces worldwide. The website of the music magazine Pitchfork called Zummo’s music
“the sound of sublimity…that sends shivers down the nervous system,” and in an
interview with The Quietus, Scottish deejay JD Twitch (Keith McIvor) characterized
Zummo’s work as “sheer bliss.”
