Peter Breinholt

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Peter Breinholt (b. March 31, 1969 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is a recording artist popular in the Salt Lake City, Utah local music scene. His music is usually classified as folk.

1 Career
2 Musical style
3 Hearings
4 Recordings
5 External links

[edit] Career

After graduating from the University of Utah in 1993, Peter released an album entitled Songs About the Great Divide (nicknamed "The Big Parade") which became an underground classic on Utah college campuses. Or not so underground, with the Brigham Young University Marching Band soon playing the song, "You Wore Flowers" from that first album, on the football field at halftime. Breinholt began performing (and selling out) major concert halls in his home state of Utah and eventually in surrounding states.

His touring band has included Capitol Records recording artist Ryan Shupe, banjo player Craig Miner, recording artist David Tolk, percussionist Randy Herbert, and harmonica-player Greg Whiteley (who also directed the 2005 Sundance Film Festival documentary New York Doll).

Since his debut release, Peter has released five more albums, including his popular Live September, which was recorded before a fragile audience three days after the 9/11 attacks. In 2006, he released All The Color Green, which is the first album for which Breinholt hired a producer, rather than producing himself.

[edit] Musical style

Although a folk artist, Peter has performed his music with many symphony orchestras and choirs. On New Year's Eve 2006, Peter appeared as a guest with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in an event broadcast worldwide by satellite. The concert was filmed before a live audience of more than 21,000 people in Salt Lake City, UT.

In addition to performing, Peter has also written and recorded many songs for feature films, including six songs for the 2007 release Everybody Wants To Be Italian starring Penny Marshall, John Kapelos, and John Enos III. Peter's songs have also been heard in CNN stories, movie trailers, and television programs. "First Song", from his 2006 release All The Color Green, is the current theme song for a Utah local television program entitled UtahBrides.com. His music was used in 1999 to unveil computer company iOmega's portable music player, The Hip Zip. In 1997, Breinholt scored the music for a short film entitled We Didn't, and in 2006 he directed (and scored) a documentary film entitled Buckland's Station.

Breinholt is known to many Utahns for his most famous annual outing -- an autumn concert at the Sundance Amphitheater up Provo Canyon in Utah. He remains one of Utah's largest concert draws to this day.

[edit] Hearings

In 2000, Peter testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee field hearing organized by Senator Orrin Hatch on the subject of peer-to-peer technology, online file-sharing, and CD burning. Napster-founder Shawn Fanning also testified, along with half a dozen leaders from the high-tech computer industry.