Welcome to Peter Winkler’s website

Peter Winkler is a composer, pianist, and
Professor of music at Stony Brook University,
where he has taught since 1971.

His compositions include both concert works
and music for the theater; many of his pieces explore connections between popular and classical idioms.

As a pianist, he appears with Rhoda Levine’s opera improvisation group, Play It By Ear,
and with his wife, violinist Dorothea Cook,
in the duo Silken Rags.

Peter Winkler’s research and teaching is
focused on the history and theory of popular music.