Peter Hanson

• Period: Classical (1750-1819)

Biography

Peter Hanson is a violinist who played in John Eliot Gardiner's Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and other period instrument ensembles. In 1993 he co-founded the Eroica Quartet, an ensemble devoted to rediscovering and reviving an authentic nineteenth-century performing style for strings, and is its first violinist. ~ Joseph Stevenson, All Music Guide