Erik-Peter Mortensen

Singer; Songwriter; Composer;

Orchestrator; Conductor;

Producer; Audio Engineer

Hi! My name is Erik-Peter Mortensen (EP) aka 4LeafComposer!

4LeafComposer, like a musical 4 Leaf Clover, showcases the 4 “C’s” of my talents and passions! Classical, Choral, Cinematic and Contemporary!

My professional singing career began first at the Metropolitan & New York City Opera Children's Choruses; and also at a professional church choir, The Men and Boys' Choir of the Church of the Transfiguration in NYC.

My education in music includes degrees with high honors from Columbia University and Berklee College of Music.

I am an accomplished composer, singer-songwriter, arranger, and music producer with over 1000 songs and 2 dozen albums produced for myself, clients and collaborators.

I will generally be posting music on Spotify and videos on YouTube which feature the many aspects of my music I have composed, music I have performed, music I have produced, music of my collaborators, and some of my favorite other artists!

Explore, and enjoy!

-EP

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I love the tone and range of this singer's voice. He uses his impressive vocal range to his advantage and keeps me on my tones as he skillfully sings his way through various different notes on the scale. Of course, this song is definitely one I would imagine hearing in church, but I can see it being appreciated by fans of this style of music as well as those who are looking for classical religious songs. The instrument being played behind the vocals is beautiful and compliments the singer's voice very nicely. The quality of this track is great and I'm glad that it 's the length that it is since the lyrics can get slightly repetitive, but it 's easy to look past that because of how beautiful the music is. It 's relaxing and something that would be nice to unwind to, as well as worship with if being listened to in a spiritual setting. I'd recommend this to fans of this type of music, definitely.”

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" It's not the sort of melody you would listen to in the car or with a friend, but a more private song that feels you with a sense of the heavens. It was larger than life. Very impressive and filled with a lot of conviction. ”
-ReverbNation Crowd Reviews

Representing the experimental (he would call it 'multi-dimensional'!) end of the spectrum, Erik-Peter's masterful compositions, songs and recordings are typified by a hybrid writing style which combines Medieval and Renaissance modal synthesis with Baroque and Classical counterpoint and harmonic language, all suffused with Romantic passion, in order to create pieces of symphonic & sweeping orchestral impact.


If you imagine the epic film scores of composer John Williams, you're on the right track to imagining Erik-Peter's music-- however, to get all the way there, you also need to imagine all of the above becoming fused with bouncy pop, rock, folk, world and dance grooves and traditions.



Erik-Peter, or EP, is equally at home with each of these techniques and styles. His wide-ranging music shows us that he is just as capable of creating a strictly Baroque fugue on subjects as varied as the melodies of 'Mr. Softee' and 'Hey Jude', as he is in combining the varied stylistic elements of rock, Gregorian Chant, and classic Hollywood (with the occasional touch of flamenco guitar) as he has done in some of his more recent creations, such as his popular song 'Hero's Quest' and the film-score worthy 'Dragon Song'.

While attending St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's High School in New York, he was a bass and founding member of its madrigal ensemble, The Not-Ready-for-Roylaty Singers (NRFRS), and performed in many concert programs and outside performances, developing a particular knowledge and passion for this style of singing. While subsequently enrolled at Columbia University, he founded the New York Madrigal Singers (NYMS) during his junior year. The ensemble performed dozens of times over the next 7 years, producing several CD's worth of recordings, and receiving two favorable reviews by Alan Kozin, music critic of The New York Times.

Not only a performer, composer and conductor, Erik-Peter is also a professional audio engineer, and has created his own production company called "Papagena Productions" (in tribute to one of his favorite Mozart opera characters from "The Magic Flute"), of which "Cathedral Records" is its main independent label. The mission of Cathedral is to produce and release a broad range of old, new and hybrid works with a Classical Music influence.

“In the more slowly unfolding madrigals -- "Silver Swan" and "Now Each Flowry Band of May," for example -- the choir produced a velvety, perfectly balanced sound. Where Gibbons used a more quickly moving polyphony, there were occasionally slightly frayed edges, but the church's reverberant acoustics tended to smooth over imperfections that might have been more troublesome in a drier hall. And for the most part, even the more complex pieces were admirably polished.”

Alan Kozinn - The New York Times

“The (New York Madrigal Singers), which was founded in 1990, is an ensemble of 15 young singers conducted by Erik-Peter Mortensen. Its beautifully blended, velvety sound is perfectly suited to the demands of this music, and Mr. Mortensen shaped the readings in ways that brought out the texts and their underlying anxieties unequivocally. The sumptuous acoustics of the church magnified the group's sound nicely, and led a listener to endorse Mr. Mortensen's decision to dispense with the accompaniments Rossi provided.”

Alan Kozinn - The New York Times

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