Peter Reiter (pianist)

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Peter Reiter at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival 2015

Peter Reiter-Schaub (born December 2, 1959 in Rastatt ) is a German composer and musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , piano ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Reiter received piano lessons from the age of five and learned the bassoon as a teenager . From 1976 he studied at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts , worked as a bassoonist in the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe in 1978/1979 , and then studied jazz piano at the University of Music . He has led his own bands since the 1980s, but was also a member of the Tobias Langguth Trio and Fritz Hartschuh's quartet . He has been the pianist of the hr big band since 1999 . He has toured with Jon Eardley , Al Foster , Tony Lakatos , Dusko Goykovich , Hana Hegerová and Vitold Rek and also worked on recordings of Heinz Sauer , Chaka Khan , Jeanette McLeod and Jule Neigel .

He also composed and arranged for big bands . He also wrote the orchestral suite “Hallo Marlene” for saxophone trio and orchestra and “Weill ... the music went to America” for woodwind quintet and jazz trio, which premiered in 1998 at the Mannheim Jazz Days. With German Marstatt and Manfred Honetschläger he composed a mass for the Johanneskirche Darmstadt. He also worked as a lecturer at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Reiter lives near Darmstadt

Discographic notes

  • Your Romance (1988)
  • Fritz Hartschuh: Monk Project (1993)
  • Charlie Mariano & Vitold Rek feat. Peter Reiter - Cathedral vol. 1 (TMP CD 611); 2005

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