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He has an impressive catalogue of orchestral works, as well as four string quartets to his credit. We talked by Skype on May 3, What was the musical environment like in your family? Were there uncles and aunts that made music? Your parents? PJ: My parents were not musical, although my father liked to listen to classical music.

Neither one played an instrument, or was involved in classical music in any way. They all played guitar and piano, and we would have these family sing-alongs, with both English and French folk and pop tunes. My ancestry is French-Canadian. With my generation we lost that, and had to study it in school like everybody else. Those family get-togethers were some of the first musical experiences that I had.

Growing up in Vermont I was part of the Vermont Youth Orchestra, and played percussion instruments, but I was primarily a pianist, and eventually I played a concerto with the orchestra.

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I grew up playing percussion instruments in band in middle school and high school, because I was primarily a pianist. I was always good at the mallet instruments, because they were set up like keyboards. Classical music was an important part of my upbringing, because I was pretty serious about piano — entering competitions, playing all of the classical composers — Bach, Mozart, Beethoven — as well as popular music — I was really into the Beatles.

Pretty early on I knew that I wanted to write music and be a composer. I started writing little imitative piano pieces for myself to play.