Peter Schickele’s Concert Appearances Here is a list of concert halls and performing groups who have graciously invited Peter Schickele or Prof. Schickele to present concerts in the near future, along with dates and times and helpful or informative links.  Peter Schickele no longer maintains a regular touring schedule, but assorted concerts do get scheduled from time to time and are posted here when they do.   Note:  It is always wise to check things out before arriving at the concert hall five minutes before curtain time; concerts sometimes materialize, or evaporate out of, or into, respectively, thin air.  To find out about the latest materializations and evaporations, when and if they happen, sign up for our mailing list.

Update From Peter Schickele —March 2012 I'm 76 years old now, and I use a cane because of my weak legs and so that I’ll have something to hit waiters and waitresses who ask more than five times how my dinner is with. As those of you who have seen P.D.Q. Bach shows know, they tended to be pretty athletic on my part, in ways that I can no longer continue.  So I have stopped doing the standard P.D.Q. Bach touring (with Bill Walters as stage manager/straight man and lots of outrageous props).  I occasionally do vocal concerts mixing P.D.Q. Bach and Peter Schickele pieces;  I also give the occasional lecture or provide spoken introductions for concerts involving P.D.Q.’s and/or my music. The upshot is that I have more or less retired from touring, but I'm still composing and even discovering the occasional P.D.Q. Bach manuscript. Bill Walters is doing a lot of extra work in movies and television these days; if you see a particularly seedy-looking hippie in the background of a shot in Law and Order, it’s probably Bill.  He was also seen recently playing chess in Washington Park with Conan O’Brien. I’ve just finished my sixth string quartet, subtitled “Shadow Mountain,” (for the cabin that my parents, my brother and I—plus a carpenter who knew what he was doing—built in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1964).  My copyist was curious about the designation Shadow Mountain, so he Google’d it, and found out that it’s the name for a mental institution somewhere in the southwest.  Ah, well.  Actually, it is a little bit of heaven on earth, a family log cabin on the far (eastern) side of Jackson Hole, away from all the tourists, and fully deserving a piece in its honor. Although schedule updates will continue on this website, the concerts won’t be as frequent as in the past, as I slip sweetly into my dodderhood.
Date	Program (link to description)	Location (link to venue site if available)
April 23, 2012, Monday at 7:30 p.m.	The Armadillo String Quartet presents their 22nd Annual “Music by Peter Schickele” concert with guest artists pianists Joanne Pearce Martin & Gavin Martin.  As is customary, Mr. Schickele will be on hand to introduce the following pieces:       String Quartet No. 6 “Shadow Mountain” (world premiere)      Piano Trio “Alaria” (west coast premiere)      Music for an Evening for string quartet and piano four hands      River Music for viola & cello      Little Mushrooms for piano four hands	Neighborhood Church 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd. Pasadena, California http://www.armadillostringquartet.com/
July 21, 2012,  Saturday at 8:00 p.m.	Peter Schickele will be performing with a group of instrumentalists and vocalists for the annual Woodstock Beat benefit concert.  The selections have not yet been selected, but Byrdcliffe Presents: The Woodstock Off-Beat: The Musical Life of Peter Schickele will include a retrospective of the works of Peter Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach, produced by Garry Kvistad.	Maverick Concert Hall 120 Maverick Rd. Woodstock, New York http://www.woodstockguild.org/
August 5, 2012, Sunday at 4:00 p.m.	The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice will feature two Peter Schickele works for chorus, or in this case six choirs, including a piano concerto played by virtuoso Justin Kolb accompanied by the choirs.      Concerto for Piano and Chorus “The Twelve Months”      Go for Broke, a Comedy for Chorus	The Festival Stage Phoenicia Parish Field Phoenicia, New York 845-688-1344 http://www.phoeniciavoicefest.org/

Other Concert Information Also see Peter Schickele’s Nonappearances, concerts of Peter Schickele’s and P.D.Q. Bach’s music by other performers.   Learn about over 40 years of P.D.Q. Bach concerts in New York, including promotional photos and historical radio advertisements.   Find out about concerts on the radio and other radio appearances.

Concert Tours For more information about the concerts, including: descriptions of the music biographies of the performers information on how to book a concert   Go to the Concert Tour Information Page