Bio: Peter Neuendorffer, folk-classical-jazz piano

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Peter started picking out tunes at age seven, by eight he was singing operatic lead, as a teen

he traveled to Maine and Vermont to do summer stock and by his late teens he was playing in bands

in hospitals, as a patient. After a long stint of homelessness, he now flourishes playing the many styles of

music he learned in this travels.

Peter Neuendorffer’s new piano album, entitled “Lonely Weather” features eleven improvised ballads. Peter’s other albums in 1999 and 2001 had hymns and ditties and original topical songs about television, aging truck drifters, and phone friendships.

Peter blends folk, classical, and jazz into straightforward style. He has performed to rave reviews from his fellow musicians, including his New Faces stint and as a featured artist at Club Passim in Cambridge. He has also featured at the Center for the Arts at Natick.

“Lonely Weather” is Peter’s first attempt to bring his music out of that scene to a wider audience. He is no stranger to the various forms of music, having studied both writing like Bach and jamming at a Coltrane tribute night at the Gainsboro Café.

At aged seven, forty-nine years ago, Peter started picking out tunes on a church piano. A year later he was singing the lead in the Christmas opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” As a teenager, he performed in a summer stock theater in Maine, doing a show a week. A large amount of listening to recordings from the back bins of college record stores led him to practice the blues extensively in private.

Peter trained at the New England Conservatory, and in the school of unloading trucks and washing dishes. He performed jazz with the Mark Harvey Octet in the 70’s both in churches and on WBUR FM radio. Peter is now a member of a musicians collaborative “Tunefoolery” that performs in many nursing home and day-program settings.

“I want to erase the fourth wall between the performer and the audience and try to get them to think about how my songs connect in various ways with other types of music” - says Peter.

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