Peter Aglinskas
	Title:	Adjunct Professor
	Office:	Mundelein 1202
	Phone:	773-508-8319
	E-mail:	paglins@luc.edu

Personal Information

Degrees:

M.M., Composition, Northwestern University

B.M., Composition, De Paul University

Peter Aglinskas is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Fine and Performnig Arts of Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches applied guitar, and conducts the guitar ensemble. He is also on the guitar faculty of Harper College in Palatine, Illinois. He won the Honor's Concert Award for his orchestral work Kamyzas Paneling from Northwestern University under his Master in Music.

Having composed and recorded music ranging from symphonic and operatic to rock and funk, Peter Aglinskas has written many scores for the theatre and was nominated twice for the Joseph Jefferson Award in the category of Best Original Musical Score. He has been a composer and guitarist in such notable and stylistically varied Chicago musical ensembles as The Loop Group, David Hernandez and Street Sounds, and Kapture.

Recipient of the Chicago Cultural Department's "Artists International" Award, Peter Aglinskas has been delighting audiences for more than two decades with his signature blend of popular, classical, and world music influences. His latest CD release sepia session features his original solo guitar arrangements of jazz and pop gems with an Afro-Latin spin.