Bio Peter Blanchette

Peter Blanchette, along with being the inventor of the archguitar, has licensed music to HBO (Sex and the City), PBS (Inside the Tuscan Hills series, Children's Television Workshop, All Things Considered, A Prairie Home Companion, many animated shorts), John Turturro's film "Illuminata" with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom on RCA, and won the Massachusetts Cultural Council's highest honor for composers, the Artists' Grant Award for Composition. His 15 archguitar recordings, among them "Had Miles met Maurice-" an Audiofile Top 100 CDs of the year (2000) on DORIAN, have sold over 250,000 copies. He has composed award-winning scores to Buster Keaton's silent masterpieces, "The General" and "The Navigator." As a performer/arranger his work has been featured on NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion, " and many other public radio performances. Recent composing/producing credits have included and award-winning recording of Blanchette's arrangements for Pan Morrigan and a recording of children's music from the British Isles based on The Great Song Book, with soprano Jane Bryden and singer-sonfwriter Nell Bryden.