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Composers Bureau ArchivesPeter SaccoPeter Sacco passed away August 12, 2000 Biography
Sacco was a recipient of many awards and grants, such as the National Endowment for the Arts (1974), Ford Foundation Recording Fund, National Foundation for the Arts, and ASCAP, from which he had received an annual stipend award since 1967. He was listed as composer in Grove's Dictionary of Composers, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Composers, International Biographical Society (Cambridge, England), and Contemporary American Composers (a biography compiled by H.W. Jacobi). Sacco wrote over 300 works for most forms, including jazz songs, jazz instrumental pieces and opera. Sixteen of those were for orchestra and string orchestra. Peter Sacco composed and performed music in the jazz idiom all his life. The Introduction and Divertimento was composed especially for The Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. Recordings A complete P. Peter Sacco CD recording took place in Prague in November 1998, with Dr. Paul Freeman conducting the National Czech Symphony Orchestra. Between 1993 and 1997, the following works were recorded in Europe:
Compositions Peter's Sacco's works are published by Lawson-Gould, Carl Fischer, Swan River Press and Summy-Birchard.
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Peter Sacco was a freelance composer, vocalist, jazz pianist, and
voice teacher who lived in Ashland, Oregon. Born into a musical family
in Albion, New York, he began piano study at age four and later studied
trumpet and tuba. Mr. Sacco had been a faculty member and composer-in-residence
at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan; the University of Hawaii;
and for 22 years, San Francisco State University, where he taught
most of the musical disciplines and headed the Composers Workshop.
He came to live in Ashland in 1985.