PETER BREINER

Peter Breiner is one of the world’s most recorded musicians, with over 150 CDs released and record numbers sold both as albums or online streams. Known as a conductor, pianist, arranger and composer he has conducted, often doubling as a pianist, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Mozart Orchestra, Hungarian State Radio Orchestra, Nicolaus Esterhazy Orchestra Budapest, Polish Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra, Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra National de Lille, France, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others.

Some of his most acclaimed recordings include Beatles Go Baroque and Elvis Goes Baroque representing the collections of his commercially most successful Baroque arrangements together with Christmas Goes Baroque I and II. His arrangements of national anthems of all participating countries were used during the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.

More recently, the world première recording for Naxos of his own arrangements of Janáček’s Six Operatic Suites with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and himself conducting earned tremendous acclaim, Gramophone stating “Splendid disc…conducted with passion and sympathetic understanding…” the Chicago Tribune adding “Breiner fills the void with beautifully crafted symphonic suites based on the music of Jenůfa”.

Breiner’s compositions and arrangements have been played in concerts worldwide. Films that include his musical scores have enjoyed very wide international exposure (such as Anne of Green Gables, Timothy Findley’s Piano Man’s Daughter, produced by Whoopi Goldberg, and The Magic Flute ) and his music has been featured many times on the most popular TV shows ( including CBC television show Wind at My Back and Seasons of Love)

Breiner began to study piano in his early childhood in 1961 and his exceptional artistry led to his early acceptance at the Conservatory in Košice in 1971. He studied piano (L. Kojanova), composition (J. Podprocky), conducting and percussion. In 1975–1981 he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (former Czechoslovakia) with Professor Alexander Moyzes, one of the most significant figures in modern Slovak music. Peter Breiner lived in Toronto, Canada since 1992 till 2007 when he moved to New York.

He is proficient in seven languages. He has hosted various TV and radio programs about music, in 1993, was a co-host and music director of the most popular TV talk show in Slovakia, attracting over 2 million viewers, has his own column in one of Slovakia’s most influential weekly newspapers, and published his first book “Maple Leaves” in April 1998.

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