A 4th generation musician, Erik-Peter Mortensen (EP) started singing professionally at age 9 at The Men and Boy's Choir of the Church of the Transfiguration, NY, and developed a great passion for Early Music. A year later he joined both the Metropolitan and City Opera Children's Choruses. While studying at Columbia University for us Music BA, he founded the New York Madrigal Singers (NYMS), which he led for 7 years. The NYMS received 2 favorable NY Times Reviews and produced 3 CDs. In 2015, he received his Master Certificate for Orchestration for Film and TV from Berklee College of Music where he studied with Ben Newhouse and Pinar Tobrak, composer of Marvel's superhero saga, “Captain Marvel”. EP has sung professionally for decades in numerous churches and ensembles in the tri-state area. His compositional style is very eclectic and he's equally at home writing motets, anthems and madrigals in Renaissance style, fugues in the style of Bach, divertimentos in the style of Mozart, as well as art songs, cinematic blockbusters, epic rock, sci-fi electronica, as well as blurring and/or inventing genres such as Sacred Hip-Hop or EDM infused with Gregoria Chant. He is currently pursuing a dual MFA with the University of Chichester, England in Orchestration and Composition for Film, TV, and Games. Many samples of his work paired to visual media can be found on Vimeo, Spotify and other Social Media under his first name Erik-Peter, (which is unique) as well as his brand “4LeafComposer”.
