Tuba
Peter Belknap
About
Peter started playing the baritone horn in elementary school, where his grandfather was the public school band director. He switched to French horn in seventh grade and played through high school and college, studying with John Carabella of the NY Philharmonic and Harry Shapiro of the BSO, and played with several groups at Harvard. After college he spent a summer at the Aspen Music School and then briefly freelanced in New York City until financial reality took over and the horn went into the closet.
In 1988 Peter and his family settled in Bedford, MA. All three of his children played in the Greater Boston Youth Orchestra and Peter sang in several area choruses and played 4th horn in the New England Philharmonic. When he retired from the software industry in 2019, Peter returned to his early love of low brass by taking up the tuba. He studies with Ken Amis and is thrilled to be playing with the Apollo Ensemble. He also plays with Bay Colony Brass, the New England Philharmonic, the Brookline Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Book Club, the Horizon Ensemble and other Boston area groups.
APOLLO ENSEMBLE OF BOSTON 