Grégoire Peters

Gregoire Peters (* 18th October 1961 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a French jazz musician ( alto , tenor and baritone saxophone , flute , clarinet ).

Peters comes from a musical family; his father was a conductor, his mother a violinist; Olivier Peters is his older brother. At the age of four he received his first piano and violin lessons and at 14 he discovered John Coltrane and switched to the saxophone. A year later he added the flute so that he could continue to play in the school orchestra. During his studies he played in the Theater des Westens in Berlin from 1983 . Engagements in the NDR Big Band and the RIAS Big Band Berlin followed . Since 2001 he has been working as a freelancer; he is a member of Andrej Hermlin's Swing Dance Orchestra and the Capital Dance Orchestra . Together with saxophonist James Scannell, he founded the Peters' Peppers quintet , which specialized in the music of the 1940s and 1950s. As a soloist he can be heard on albums with Till Brönner ( Generations of Jazz ), Hermlin, the RIAS Big Band, Olivier Peters, Nina Hagen , Mark Murphy and Dotschy Reinhardt , but has also worked as a studio musician on numerous other recordings.

From 1989 to 1991 he had a teaching position at the Berlin University of Music and Performing Arts , and since 1992 at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and at the Berlin Jazz Institute .

Lexical entries

Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

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SURNAME	Peters, Grégoire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French jazz musician (saxophone, flute)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boulogne-Billancourt