
On Saturday, August 23, at 8:00pm, Great Waters Music Festival is hosting the Great Waters Orchestra Pops. The great event will be located under the Great Waters tent at Brewster Academy.
Peter Mansfield, the acclaimed conductor and multitalented musician, has a long standing relationship with the Boston Pops and has worked closely with maestros John Williams and Keith Lockhart as pianist and arranger. He has also served as Musical Coordinator for the PBS television specials, Evening At Pops, featuring such artists as Winton Marsalis, George Benson, Lyontyne Price and Tommy Tune. His credits include pops music conductor for such renowned orchestras as the Kansan City Symphony, the Hartford Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the New Hampshire Symphony, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the Philadelphia Pops and the National Symphony Orchestra, to name a few. Mr. Mansfield was the Music Director for Concert on Ice, the first international tour featuring Olympic and world champion figure skaters in concert with major US and Canadian orchestras. He enjoyed a 20 year tenure as Music Director and Music Supervisor of the renowned Harvard University Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Along with his many conducting and arranging engagements, he presently serves as a faculty member in the Music Theater Department of Boston Conservatory.