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The Ellis Island Honors Society awarded Boyer the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, among many eminent recipients, in its annual ceremony.

Boyer will receive the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a highly prestigious award recognized by the United States Congress.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will give two performances of Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America at Heinz Hall.

Boyer worked on the production team for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Live in Concert with Orquestra OBC in Barcelona.

Peter Boyer has contributed orchestrations to two major film scores composed by James Newton Howard, released by Disney and Warner Bros.

Boyer composed and conducted a score of incidental music for the powerful war letters play If All the Sky Were Paper, featuring renowned actors Annette Bening and Ed Asner.

The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra’s latest album release, American Originals: 1918, includes Boyer’s work In the Cause of the Free.

Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America reached its milestone 200th live concert performance with the Toledo Symphony.

“The President’s Own” United States Marine Band gave the premiere of Boyer’s Fanfare, Hymn and Finale at the Texas Bandmasters Association Convention in San Antonio.

Renowned actress and “EGOT” winner Rita Moreno performed excerpts from Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America with the Boston Pops on their Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular.