BREINER, PETER

Peter Breiner is a Canadian-Slovak composer, conductor, pianist and arranger. He is known internationally for a multiplicity of recordings, broadcasts, telecasts and concert appearances. He began to play the piano at the age of four. When he was nine he started his formal training at the Košice Conservatory, where he studied piano, percussion, composition and conducting. He received traditional European musical training and studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (former Czechoslovakia) with Alexander Moyzes, one of the most significant figures in modern Slovak music.

Peter Breiner has recently conducted the world première of his own oratorio composition The Story (based on the Biblical texts) for solo singers, two choirs and a large orchestra. Other compositions include two symphonies, orchestral, chamber and choral music. His complete works for piano trio were released on his profile CD in summer 2004. He is perhaps best known, however, for his clever arrangements, including award-winning Baroque versions of the Beatles and a similar adaptation of Elvis Presley and of popular Christmas music. Breiner's distinctive arrangements of all national anthems were used during the Olympic Games in Athens 2004.

In addition to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Peter Breiner has conducted, often doubling as a pianist, the Vienna Mozart Orchestra, the Hungarian State Radio Orchestra, the Nicolaus Esterhazy Orchestra Budapest, the Polish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lille, France, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others.

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101 CLASSICS - The Best Loved Classical Melodies	8.508004
52 NATIONALHYMNEN (Die) - Der Fussball-Europameisterschaft 2008 (52 National Anthems - European Football Championship 2008)	8.552008
ADAGIO	7168
ADAGIO 2	8.553841
ALBINONI / MOZART / BACH: Famous Adagios	8.571077
AMERICAN SALUTE (AN) - SPIRIT OF THE NATION	8.559147
BALLADE - Classics Favourites for Relaxing and Dreaming	8.556604
BAROQUE GUITAR FAVOURITES	8.550274
BEATLES GO BAROQUE	8.555010
BEATLES GO BAROQUE	8.990050
BERCEUSE - MUSIC OF PEACE AND CALM	8.553843
BEST OF NAXOS 7	8.550007
BIZET- BREINER: Carmen Concerto / GRANADOS: Valses Poeticos	8.553114
BRIDE'S GUIDE TO WEDDING MUSIC (A)	8.503134
BRIDE'S GUIDE TO WEDDING MUSIC FOR CIVIL CEREMONIES (A)	8.570227-28
CAFE CLASSICS (AUSTRALIA ONLY)	8.555258-59
CHILDREN'S CLASSICS - LULLABY	8.554912DX
CHILL WITH CHOPIN	8.556784
CHILL WITH SATIE	8.556781
CHILL WITH SCHUBERT	8.556791
Chinese Popular Hits for Piano and Orchestra: If This is Love	8.223585
Chinese Popular Hits for Piano and Orchestra: The Awakening Moment	8.223662
Chinese Popular Hits for Violin and Orchestra: Love for a Man who Never Comes Home	8.223584
Chinese Popular Hits for Violin and Orchestra: Love is Like a Mysterious Dream	8.223661
CHRISTMAS - A Classic Christmas: For Your Family	8.555291
Christmas Choral Spectacular (A) (arr. Peter Breiner)	5.110095
Christmas Choral Spectacular (A) (arr. Peter Breiner)	8.557585
Christmas Goes Baroque	DVDI 0998
Christmas Goes Baroque 1	8.550301
Christmas Goes Baroque 2	8.550670
Cinema Violino - Takako Nishizaki	8.225971HDCD
CLASSICAL MARCHES	8.550532DX
CLASSICAL MOMENTS 1: Classical Music to Wake Up to	8.555357
Elvis Goes Baroque	8.990054
Especially For You	8.990026
Everlasting Chinese Love Songs: Message from the Moon	8.223426
FAMOUS MARCHES	8.571074
Feelings	8.990025
FROM SHANGHAI WITH LOVE	8.225968
GRANADOS: Spanish Dances / Escenas Poeticas	8.553037
GRIEG (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552123-24
GUITAR FAVOURITES	7189
HAYDN (THE BEST OF)	8.556668
HAYDN: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto in B Flat Major	8.550059
HAYDN: The Best of Haydn	8.551118
HOREN - LERNEN - WACHSEN: Music for Babies and Children	8.551218
I Just Called To Say I Love You	8.990045
Intermezzo: Intermezzi from Operas	8.554703
Intermezzo: Intermezzos from Carmen, Cavalleria Rusiticana, Pagliacci and more	8.570046
Just The Way You Are	8.990047
LATIN AMERICAN GUITAR CLASSICS	8.570163-64
Let's Have a New Start - Takako Nishizaki	8.223981
LISTEN, LEARN AND GROW, Vol. 2: Lullabies	8.554790
LOVE AND PEACE	8.557362DX
MAN AND A WOMAN (A)	8.990028
MARCHES (FAMOUS)	8.553596
MIRACLE OF SUMMER (THE)	8.557998
MOONLIGHT CLASSICS	8.550223DX
National Anthems of the World	8.206001
National Anthems of the World, Vol. 1	8.225296
NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD, VOL. 1: Acadia - Botswana	8.225319
National Anthems of the World, Vol. 2	8.225297
NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD, VOL. 2: Brazil - Czech Republic	8.225320
National Anthems of the World, Vol. 3	8.225298
NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD, VOL. 3: Denmark - Grenada	8.225321
National Anthems of the World, Vol. 4	8.225299
NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD, VOL. 4: Guadeloupe - Kyrgyzstan	8.225322
NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD, VOL. 5: Laos - Myanmar	8.225323
NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD, VOL. 6: Nagorno-Karabakh - Puerto Rico	8.225324
NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD, VOL. 7: Qatar - Syria	8.225325
NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD, VOL. 8: Taiwan - Zimbabwe	8.225326
NATIONAL ANTHEMS: 44 Of the World's Most Famous National Anthems	8.557546
NIGHT MUSIC 4	8.556818
NIGHT MUSIC, VOL. 3	8.551123
NIGHT MUSIC, VOL. 4	8.551124
NISHIZAKI, Takako: Russian Romance	8.225900
ONCE UPON A TIME	8.557953-54
Over The Rainbow	8.990049
PAVANE - Classics Favourites for Relaxing and Dreaming	8.556603
PERFECT SUMMER WEDDING	8.557979
RODRIGO : Concierto de Aranjuez	8.550220
RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez / GRANADOS: 12 Danzas espanolas (excerpts)	8.571057
RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez / GRANADOS: Spanish Dances (excerpts)	7139
Romantic French Music for Guitar and Orchestra	8.550480
Russian Romance	8.555331
Serenade: Classics for Relaxing and Dreaming	8.556619
SPANISH GUITAR	8.557122-23
STOR MUSIK FOR SMA ORON (Big Music for Little Ears) - Children's Music Compilation	8.503156
TANGO GOES SYMPHONY	8.557004
TCHAIKOVSKY (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552117-18
TCHAIKOVSKY: None but the Lonely Heart	8.225921
TCHAIKOVSKY: None but the Lonely Heart	8.555332
TCHAIKOVSKY: Seasons (The)	8.225922
TCHAIKOVSKY: Seasons (The) (arr. for violin and orchestra)	8.553510
Ten Years Of Success	8.554103
THE ART OF NORBERT KRAFT	8.550147DX
THE BEST OF HAYDN	8.551118DX
The Best Of Michel Legrand	8.990027
THE BEST OF TAKAKO NISHIZAKI	8.223979
THE ULTIMATE LULLABY COLLECTION	8.570514-15
The Way We Were	8.990029
Three Wishes of the Rose - Everlasting Chinese Love Songs	8.223427
WINTER	8.557726
You've Got A Friend	8.990030