š¤©STOP browsing and LISTEN to Erik-Peter sweep you off your feet! Don't settle for bland entertainers. Your guests’ hearts will swell with emotion, and they’ll beg to be invited again. His voice and his stage presence are exactly what you’re looking for: never overpowering, always memorable.
ā He specializes in holiday parties, weddings, funerals, baptisms, birthdays, choirs, house concerts, dinner parties, bar/bat mitzvahs and more.
ā He’s a man of all genres: classical, pop, rock, folk and even opera! Contact him now for a personal discussion about how he can make your upcoming event amazing.
Erik-Peter was a wonderful singer and professional musician for our concert in Tarrytown. His musicianship was a tremendous support for our early music singing group. I could rely on him to be helpful with all the sections and other musicians.
He would be a wonderful addition to your group or as a solo singer for your event! I highly recommend him.
Lisa
Response from Erik-Peter Mortensen:
Thanks so much Lisa! Itās a pleasure to work with you and I look forward to contributing more to the Early Music Chamber Singers as you continue to develop and grow!)
Erik-Peter has been a Cantor for 6 years at Sts. Peter & Paul and St. Ursula Church (Mount Vernon, NY) where I am the music director.
Erik-Peter sings with expressiveness and devoutness, and serves very well as Leader of Song for the parish.
His masterful a cappella rendition of Latin chants, with impeccable pitch, pronunciation, and pace, is highly commendable and inspiring.
Erik-Peter is a reliable soloist and ensemble singer, and his amicable disposition makes working with him a professional pleasure.
He is also a very talented composer and arranger. His film scores are especially creative and exciting!
I have known Erik-Peter for many years. I have accompanied him on the piano and organ, have hired him as a Cantor with and without a choir, and he is a true professional. He is comfortable with many musical styles of singing, is a composer and arranger. Very conscientious and reliable.
Response from Erik-Peter Mortensen:
Thanks Tom! It was also great working with you again today at the funeral at Sacred Heart Church in Dobbs Ferry!) ššš»
I am happy to testify that Erik-Peter is a very versatile musician, with remarkable qualities not only as a singer and a composer, but also video, technical and production skills. As a choral conductor, I had the opportunity to hire him and was happy with his work and his ability to serve as section leader, as well as his focus on the pronunciation of a foreign language.
EP, as heās lovingly known, is a brilliant musician who is not only an expert in the RC tradition, but also an expert musician. Heās reliable and passionate.
I hired Erik-Peter Mortensen to write an original composition, and perform with a small choir for my baby's christening. It was an absolutely magical moment. He organized, auditioned, and hired the choir, wrote the most beautiful 4 part polyphonic motet in Latin, and brought tears of joy to everyone's eyes. Except for the baby - thank goodness. She loved it. She is a musician and songwriter today, maybe there was a connection made that day.
Iāve worked with Erik-Peter since May 2021 and was recommended to him highly by my colleague organist and other professional cantor already working for me.
From the beginning I was impressed by his beautiful tone and emotional delivery. After just singing one cantor mass for me, I asked him if he could stay permanently and thankfully he agreed!
Iāve sung countless masses, funerals, weddings, and special venues with him since then at our 2 churches in Dobbs Ferry, NY and he never fails to impress. Not only does he have a voice thatās both rich and clear, but he has an extensive musical background as a 4th generation musician, having sung professionally since age 9, and also a songwriter and composer trained at Columbia University and Berklee College of Music under the highest standards.
Beyond the typical professional singer, this makes him very knowledgeable and versatile in many, if not most, musical styles, not just classical, so he can easily switch between delivering an outstanding performance in an a cappella Renaissance quartet, a Bach or Handel aria, Mozartās āAve Verum Corpusā, the Romantic āAve Mariaā by Schubert, Country styles like āThe Old Rugged Grossā or āAmazing Graceā, Spiritual Styles like āWere You There When they Crucified my Lord?ā, Traditional Folk Tunes like āDanny Boyā, French styles like āEn Priereā or āO Holy Nightā up to Contemporary Pop styles like āI Get to Love Youā and āTwo Becoming Oneā, all delivered with perfect idiomatic diction appropriately paired to the selection!
Erik-Peter (or EP as most of us call him) is also a crack sight-reader! You can present him with sheet music at the time of the event and even with little or no run-through, he can perform it as if heās been singing it for years! Very few singers anywhere can do this as well as EP! In fact during an emergency at one of our concerts, I handed him two mallets and asked him to play the timpani part for a Purcell overture with brass! He had never played them before but because of his exceptional musical skills, he played them admirably and no one was the wiser!
In summary, youād be very lucky to get to work with Erik-Peter, no matter what kind of singing venue or service you request of him! (Did I also mention heās a studio session singer?) As long as you provide him with the sheet music youād like sung, within the comfort zone of his quite considerable vocal range, and with at least an above average accompanist, I donāt think thereās any kind of song he couldnāt deliver with heartfelt emotion and brilliance!
Erik-Peter has a lovely voice. I've worked with him for several services including weddings, concerts and religious services. He is always professional, prompt and reliable.
Response from Erik-Peter Mortensen:
Thanks so much Theresa!)
I sing with EP at church each Sunday and in a professional early music choir. He is reliable, supremely knowledgable and passionate about the music and always gives value. He sings chant and polyphony with beauty and unusual accuracy.
Response from Erik-Peter Mortensen:
Thanks so much Graham! I appreciate your thoughtful comments!)
I have worked with EP many times, and have also used his engineering services to great satisfaction.
Response from Erik-Peter Mortensen:
Appreciate that Joe!)
Price Range: $50 and up
Languages: English
š¤©STOP browsing and LISTEN to Erik-Peter sweep you off your feet! Don't settle for bland entertainers. Your guestsā hearts will swell with emotion, and theyāll beg to be invited again. His voice and his stage presence are exactly what youāre looking for: never overpowering, always memorable.
When you choose Erik-Peter you get the whole package. Professional inside and out, always smiling and friendly, a voice that will go straight to your heart and the hearts of your guests. You're not simply getting an entertainer. You get someone who can help you organize your entertainment from start to finish. Need other musicians to make it complete? He's got you covered. Not sure what songs or pieces to choose? Erik has impeccable taste.
Contact him now for a personal discussion about how he can make your upcoming event amazing.
š¤©STOP browsing and LISTEN to Erik-Peter sweep you off your feet! Don't settle for bland entertainers. Your guestsā hearts will swell with emotion, and theyāll beg to be invited again. His voice and his stage presence are exactly what youāre looking for: never overpowering, always memorable.
ā He specializes in holiday parties, weddings, funerals, baptisms, birthdays, choirs, house concerts, dinner parties, bar/bat mitzvahs and more.
ā Heās a man of all genres: classical, pop, rock, folk and even opera! Contact him now for a personal discussion about how he can make your upcoming event amazing.
eriksresume (at) msn (dot) com
As a 4th generation musician Erik-Peter Mortensen (aka Erik or EP) started singing professionally since the age of 9, first at the Metropolitan & New York City Opera Children's Choruses, and then in many professional choirs through the present (most recently with the Schola of St. Agnes Church, in midtown Manhattan. Having naturally developed a passionate love for Early, Baroque, and Classical music, he wishes to make the beauty of these earlier styles appeal to much wider audiences, either through fusing it with other musical styles, creating new styles, or promulgating it through his own music scoring for films, video games, and other multimedia formats. EP holds a Music B.A. from Columbia University, NY and a Master Certificate for Orchestration for FIlm and TV from Berklee Music, MA.
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.
Also at Columbia, Erik-Peter studied "Renaissance Counterpoint" with David Rakowski, "Advanced Composition" with Jeff Nichols, and "Counterpoint in the style of J.S. Bach" with Severine Neff. Thus it's no coincidence that since his graduation in 1992 with a B.A. in music, Cum Laude, much of EP's orchestral and instrumental compositional styles have been greatly influenced by Bach, while his choral works remain greatly influenced by the High Renaissance masters. In 2015, he completed his "Master Certificate for Orchestration for Film & TV" at (link hidden), the online extension of Berklee College of Music with a 4.0 GPA.
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.
Musical Style
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'.
4LeafComposer Bio
Hi! My name is Erik-Peter Mortensen (EP) aka 4LeafComposer!
4LeafComposer, like a musical 4 Leaf Clover, encapsulates the 4 āCāsā of my musical specialty and passion: 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 from Columbia University and Berklee College of Music.
I am an accomplished composer, singer-songwriter and music producer hundred's of published tracks
I will generally post videos 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 videos!
Please subscribe to me on YouTube and to Erik-Peter Mortensenās Complete Music Collection on Spotify
EPš¤©ā
I generally would love to have any music I'm required to sing sent to me in advance electronically as pdf's
The day of the venue the music should be printed for me in a binder in the order to be performed with a music stand available in good lighting. Any special notes should also be noted on a program or separate sheet of paper.
An accompanist needs to also be hired independently for any music I am to sing. It can be a keybaordist, pianist, organist, harpist, guitarist or any combination of players that can present the accompaniment completely. If you have trouble locating an accompanist I can recommend many great local ones I've worked with, and if they're unavailable, they too can make recommendations)
If it's a large venue, a working microphone should and Speaker System should be set up and functional.
| January 30, 2025 ā¢ 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Chess Teaching (repeats every Tues, Thurs) |
| January 31, 2025 ā¢ 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Chess Teaching (repeats every Mon, Wed, Fri) |
| February 02, 2025 ā¢ 8:00am - 9:30am | Saint Peter Paul and Ursula (repeats every Sun) |
| February 02, 2025 ā¢ 9:30am - 12:30pm | Saint Joseph's in the Village (repeats every Sun) |
| February 02, 2025 ā¢ 4:00pm - 6:30pm | Our Lady of Pomopeii (repeats every Sun) |
| February 05, 2025 ā¢ 6:30pm - 10:00pm | Polyhymnia (repeats every Wed) |
| June 17, 2023 ā¢ 5:30pm - 9:30pm | Concert |
| September 08, 2022 ā¢ 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Chess Teaching |
Erik-Peter is an extremely versatile artist and can perform anything from Mozart to Eminem! Contact him now for a personal discussion about how he can make your upcoming event amazing.
Erik-Peter is a man of all genres! Classical, pop, rock, folk and even opera!
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