Peter Breiner
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Peter Breiner, one of the world's most recorded musicians began to play the
piano at age four. At age nine he began formal training at the
Conservatory in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, studying piano, percussion, and
composition as well as conducting. Peter later moved to Bratislava
where he furthered his composition studies with Prof. Alexander Moyzes.
He graduated in 1982 at the Masters Degree level. Since that time he
has pursued a career as a multi-faceted artist (composer, conductor,
arranger and pianist). Since March 1992, Peter has lived in Toronto,
Canada. Peter has played in and conducted for literally hundreds of
concerts and recordings. His work is well known in USA, Canada,
Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Holland, France,
Finland, Italy, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong. He is proficient in
seven languages. He has hosted various TV and radio programs about
music. In 1993, he was a co-host and music director of the most popular
TV talk-show in Slovakia, attracting over 2 million viewers in a
country with a population of 5,5 million. Also active as a journalist.
One of Peter's favorite challenges is to play and conduct
simultaneously. He does this with everything from Haydn and Mozart
piano concertos to Gershwin and his own compositions. His arrangements
of both "evergreen" and current pop hits are hugely successful with
audiences. His archives include about 500 such arrangements. He has
toured Asia a number of times, including playing Gershwin's Rhapsody
with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra for an audience of 70,000. In
August 1997 it was his eighth tour, this time with Orchestre National
de Lille, France, playing and conducting works by Brahms, Schubert and
Tchaikowsky. Nearly all of Peter's compositions and arrangements have
been recorded by various recording companies, as well as enjoying
exposure through radio and television. His compositions and
arrangements have been played in concerts worldwide. Films that include
his musical scores have enjoyed very wide international exposure. Peter
Breiner is founder and president of Sympho Fun Incorporated, a Canadian
company involved in recording classical and film music.
