Peter Nelson-King is an active performer and teacher on trumpet and piano, and plays regularly with multiple orchestras and large ensembles in the Seattle area. A King County native, they earned degrees from University of Puget Sound and Boston University, returning to the Seattle area after freelancing in the Northeast. They are a longtime member of Lake Washington Symphony Orchestra and Brass Band Northwest, and a frequent recurring member of the experimental jazz group Scrambler. As a solo and chamber performer, they specialize in promoting works by composers who have unjustly fallen into neglect, and have revived major works by dozens of these composers for Seattle audiences.

Peter Nelson-King: No Place to Go

Saturday, July 22, 2023 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Peter Nelson-KingNo Place To Go
Aaron Keyt8 Pieces for Melodica (world premiere)
Richard Cameron-Wolfe — Selected works
Robert Carl — Selected works
Aaron Kirschner — Selected works

$5-$20 donation at the door

Wayward Music Series: Seattle Composer-Pianists

Thursday, November 17, 2022 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States

$5-$15 suggested donation at door

Peter Nelson-King – Feldman: 'For Bunita Marcus'

Saturday, November 5, 2022 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA, United States

$5-$15 sliding scale donation

Groupmuse: Reiten House Inaugural Chamber Concert with Peter Nelson-King, piano

Sunday, November 21, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Seattle Venue TBA, Seattle, WA, United States
Program to include:
Herbert Howells – Slow Dance (Double the Cape)
Eugene Aynsley Goossens – Kaleidoscope, Op. 18
William Baines – Tides
Edward Elgar – Variation IX: "Nimrod" from Enigma Variations, Op. 36
Constant Lambert – Elegiac Blues
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hymn Tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lake in the Mountains
Peter Warlock – Folk-Song Preludes
Percy Grainger – Colonial Song

$5 registration; $20 (or pay as you can) at concert

Peter Nelson-King: Feldman – For Bunita Marcus

Saturday, September 11, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Pianist Peter Nelson-King performs Morton Feldman's penultimate work, For Bunita Marcus – a 72 minute masterpiece of otherworldly time & space. Presented with Nelson-King's original artwork.

$5-$15 suggested donation

Konnect Club: Peter Nelson-King – Noel Far From Home [LIVE]

Saturday, December 19, 2020 @ 10:30pm – 12:30am (EST)
Online event
Join Peter Nelson-King for a recital of hidden Christmas piano gems, ranging from works by Czech composers, to folk-song enhancements, to experimental pieces.

$10

Peter Nelson-King: Morton Feldman – For Bunita Marcus

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 @ 10:00pm – 11:30pm (EDT)
Online event
Pianist Peter-Nelson King performs Morton Feldman's penultimate work, For Bunita Marcus – a 72 minute masterpiece of otherworldly time and space.

$10

Peter Nelson-King: Russian and Soviet Piano Masterworks

Wednesday, May 20, 2020 @ 10:00pm – 11:30pm (EDT)
Online event
Pianist Peter Nelson-King showcases works from the adventurous late 19th-/early 20th-century bloom in Russian classical music.

Free (Free (donations welcome))

[Livestream] The Music of Henry Eichheim

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 @ 10:00pm – 11:30pm (EDT)
Online event
Join multi-instrumentalist Peter Nelson-King for a lecture recital on American composer Henry Eichheim, featuring performances of his entire published works.

Free (Donations welcome)

Forgotten Leaf Roulette

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 @ 10:10pm – 11:30pm (EDT)
Online event
A livestreamed, experimental recital, focusing on piano pieces and songs that are only one page long. Music by John Cage, Darius Milhaud, Charles Ives, Arthur Honegger, Ned Rorem, and others.

Donations accepted

David Hoffman & Peter Nelson-King: Time & the Traveler

Saturday, November 23, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Songs of Travel
Egon Wellesz – On Time, Op. 63
Edgar Bainton – Valley Moonlight
Frank Bridge – Adoration, H. 57
John Ireland – The Trellis
Roger Quilter – Selections from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12
Haydn Wood – A Brown Bird Singing

$15 suggested donation

Wayward Music Series: East Coast Meets West

Thursday, August 8, 2019 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Paul Moravec – Epithalamion
Peter Nelson-King – In Memoriam (world premiere)
Alan Vizzutti – Quadrat
Michael Weinstein – Sonata for Trumpet and Piano

$5-$20 donation

Wayward Music Series: Songs from the Exotic

Friday, August 2, 2019 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Aaron Kirschner – Four Love Songs of Sara Teasdale (Northwest premiere)
Hale Smith – The Valley Wind
Judith Weir – Songs from the Exotic

$5-$20 donation

Wayward Music Series: Post Avant Garde feat. Peter Nelson-King

Thursday, May 17, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Peter Nelson-King presents an eclectic program of individualist piano music from the 1980’s.

$5-$15 donation