Erik-Peter Mortensen
United States, New York, New York
Erik-Peter Mortensen 
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About Erik-Peter Mortensen
Bio
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 Classica
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This is my submission for the link KING OF BEATS GEMS EDITION beatmaking contest!
I chose the Czar midi loops from the Free Gems Pack, provided by Cymatics, which sounded amazing to me!
And to make it uniquely my own, I added some additional layers to the existing loops as the track progressed, and additional sounds from all over the world, including my own vocal phrases and harmonies! :-)
May be a little different but it's Hip-Hop at the core and I hope you enjoy it! A lot!
Follow the contest on instagram and please vote for me if you like what I did! :-)
Here's the link to vote for me at the contest!!
link
#kingofbeatsgems
EP
Heaven Descending05:05
YouTube
My Submission for the awesome Spitfire Audio "Score a scene" competition for a chase sequence from season 3 of HBO's West World! Above or on the video link please watch the fully scored scene with my music! Quite exciting! :-)
Thank you Paul Thompson for facilitating such a fine clip for us composers around the world to lick our chops over! :-)
The tips you provided in your video on how to set up hitpoints for scoring were just so helpful, and finally clarified the process to me after years of frustration!
Looking forward to scoring many more scenes, and hopefully films, maybe as part of your team one day!!
Best regards!
EP
As news of the global pandemic and more drastic actions taken to prevent its spread permeated the news last week, I felt inspired (I believe by the Universal and Divine Holy Spirit within all of us) to voice this prayer for the world to come together with the grace of God's aid during this devastating health and economic crisis. I then set it to music for 4 voices in the style of an Elizabethan English Anthem, one of my favorite genres of all time.
I sent the scores to my talented friends and colleagues, Audrey Fernandez-Fraser and Benjamin Doyle and asked them to record first audio, then video for this virtual quartet. Truly virtual as this quartet could never exist in reality as Audrey sang both the soprano and alto parts-into her cellphone no less, but to satisfactory effect!
I hope it brings you some meditative reflection, inspiration, peace, comfort and hope for our leaders and all humanity to join forces in this isolating time, apart but together!
If you do, please share it freely with any friends, family, choirs, churches, music directors, people who are suffering and need consolation, etc. who may be looking for something inspirational and hopeful that this prayer and music offers!
Musically yours,
EP
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Oh Lord be merciful unto thy children,
For we have gone astray.
We have put our trust not in Thee,
But have scorned Thy commandements
And become proud in the imagination of our hearts.
Help us to help one another
And seek not the treasure of gold,
But the treasure of Thy Holy Spirit
That dwelleth in ourselves and in our brothers.
Let the nations all with one accord
Show forth to all the People
Thy tender and loving mercy
And give unto them their daily bread
And deliverance from the scourge.
Amen.
Prayer during Pandemic Crisis-Oh Lord be merciful unto Thy children04:48
Please vote for my song "Caro Mea" for the "Voices of Opera" contest by East/West ending 5/19!
1st prize is some cash, but 2 runners up will get use of the Voices of Opera Library for one year!
For the contest, the song has to feature Voices of Opera prominently. I created a 4 part motet on the text "Caro Mea", but of course only on vowels, lol!
Right now the leader has 177 votes, but I only have 7, so I really need your help! Every vote counts and will keep me in the top 20 contention! :-)
Then I divided this into sections and created a downtempo R&B/Chillout Hybrid!
Please vote for me here!
link
You can also hear Caro Mea attached to this post!
Thanks for your vote! It should take you less than 30 seconds and would mean the world to me!

:-)
EP
Cosmic Caro Mea (Bread of Life)05:35
Please vote for my song "Caro Mea" for the "Voices of Opera" contest by East/West ending 5/19!
1st prize is some cash, but 2 runners up will get use of the Voices of Opera Library for one year!
For the contest, the song has to feature Voices of Opera prominently. I created a 4 part motet on the text "Caro Mea", but of course only on vowels, lol!
Then I divided this into sections and created a downtempo R&B/Chillout Hybrid!
Please vote for me here!
link…/voices-of-opera-demo-contest
You can also hear Caro Mea attached to this post!
Thanks for your vote! It should take you less than 30 seconds and would mean the world to me!

:-)
EP
Cosmic Caro Mea (Bread of Life)05:35
Songs
- 04:02
- 02:54
- 02:13
- 04:23
- 05:05
- 04:16
- 07:21
- 06:23
- 05:40
- 05:42
- 03:53
- 05:05
- 01:55
- 03:26
- 05:20
- 03:26
- 02:40
- 01:36
- 02:31
- 02:50
- 03:29
- 01:25
- 05:20
- 04:51
- 02:05
- 02:18
- 02:29
- 01:50
- 04:37
- 03:17
- 03:01
- 02:02
- 02:03
- 01:44
- 01:24
- 03:20
- 03:41
- 07:31
- 05:51
- 03:45
About Erik-Peter Mortensen
Bio
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 link. 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 link. Bach" with Severine Neff. Thus it's no coincidence that since his graduation in 1992 with a link. 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, 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'.
Erik-Peter Mortensen has no Merchandise yet.
Please Vote for my "Gregorian chant" Hip-Hop Beat: Heaven Descending!
This is my submission for the link KING OF BEATS GEMS EDITION beatmaking contest!
I chose the Czar midi loops from the Free Gems Pack, provided by Cymatics, which sounded amazing to me!
And to make it uniquely my own, I added some additional layers to the existing loops as the track progressed, and additional sounds from all over the world, including my own vocal phrases and harmonies! :-)
May be a little different but it's Hip-Hop at the core and I hope you enjoy it! A lot!
Follow the contest on instagram and please vote for me if you like what I did! :-)
Here's the link to vote for me at the contest!!
link
#kingofbeatsgems
EP
Heaven Descending05:05
#westworldscoringcompetition2020 (Entry by Erik-Peter Mortensen)
YouTube
My Submission for the awesome Spitfire Audio "Score a scene" competition for a chase sequence from season 3 of HBO's West World! Above or on the video link please watch the fully scored scene with my music! Quite exciting! :-)
Thank you Paul Thompson for facilitating such a fine clip for us composers around the world to lick our chops over! :-)
The tips you provided in your video on how to set up hitpoints for scoring were just so helpful, and finally clarified the process to me after years of frustration!
Looking forward to scoring many more scenes, and hopefully films, maybe as part of your team one day!!
Best regards!
EP
Prayer during Time of Pandemic: Oh Lord Be Merciful Unto Thy Children
As news of the global pandemic and more drastic actions taken to prevent its spread permeated the news last week, I felt inspired (I believe by the Universal and Divine Holy Spirit within all of us) to voice this prayer for the world to come together with the grace of God's aid during this devastating health and economic crisis. I then set it to music for 4 voices in the style of an Elizabethan English Anthem, one of my favorite genres of all time.
I sent the scores to my talented friends and colleagues, Audrey Fernandez-Fraser and Benjamin Doyle and asked them to record first audio, then video for this virtual quartet. Truly virtual as this quartet could never exist in reality as Audrey sang both the soprano and alto parts-into her cellphone no less, but to satisfactory effect!
I hope it brings you some meditative reflection, inspiration, peace, comfort and hope for our leaders and all humanity to join forces in this isolating time, apart but together!
If you do, please share it freely with any friends, family, choirs, churches, music directors, people who are suffering and need consolation, etc. who may be looking for something inspirational and hopeful that this prayer and music offers!
Musically yours,
EP
_______________________________________________________
Oh Lord be merciful unto thy children,
For we have gone astray.
We have put our trust not in Thee,
But have scorned Thy commandements
And become proud in the imagination of our hearts.
Help us to help one another
And seek not the treasure of gold,
But the treasure of Thy Holy Spirit
That dwelleth in ourselves and in our brothers.
Let the nations all with one accord
Show forth to all the People
Thy tender and loving mercy
And give unto them their daily bread
And deliverance from the scourge.
Amen.
Prayer during Pandemic Crisis-Oh Lord be merciful unto Thy children04:48
Please vote for my song "Caro Mea" for the "Voices of Opera" contest by East/West ending 5/19!
Please vote for my song "Caro Mea" for the "Voices of Opera" contest by East/West ending 5/19!
1st prize is some cash, but 2 runners up will get use of the Voices of Opera Library for one year!
For the contest, the song has to feature Voices of Opera prominently. I created a 4 part motet on the text "Caro Mea", but of course only on vowels, lol!
Right now the leader has 177 votes, but I only have 7, so I really need your help! Every vote counts and will keep me in the top 20 contention! :-)
Then I divided this into sections and created a downtempo R&B/Chillout Hybrid!
Please vote for me here!
link
You can also hear Caro Mea attached to this post!
Thanks for your vote! It should take you less than 30 seconds and would mean the world to me!

:-)
EP
Cosmic Caro Mea (Bread of Life)05:35
Please Vote for my Song Caro Mea (Bread of Life) for Voices of Opera Contest!
Please vote for my song "Caro Mea" for the "Voices of Opera" contest by East/West ending 5/19!
1st prize is some cash, but 2 runners up will get use of the Voices of Opera Library for one year!
For the contest, the song has to feature Voices of Opera prominently. I created a 4 part motet on the text "Caro Mea", but of course only on vowels, lol!
Then I divided this into sections and created a downtempo R&B/Chillout Hybrid!
Please vote for me here!
link…/voices-of-opera-demo-contest
You can also hear Caro Mea attached to this post!
Thanks for your vote! It should take you less than 30 seconds and would mean the world to me!

:-)
EP
Cosmic Caro Mea (Bread of Life)05:35