Erik-Peter Mortensen

🤩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.

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.

🤩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.

✅ He specializes in holiday parties, weddings, funerals, baptisms, birthdays, choirs, house concerts, dinner parties, bar/bat mitzvahs and more.

✅ 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.

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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 “C’s” 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 Mortensen’s Complete Music Collection on Spotify

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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.