Peter Wolf (producer)

Not to be confused with Peter Wolfe (musician) or Peter Wolf.
Peter Wolf

Left to Right: Ray Reach, Chuck Leavell and Peter Wolf at the 2008 Birmingham Area Music Awards (the "BAMA Awards").
Background information
Birth name Peter F. Wolf
Born (1952-08-25) August 25, 1952
Vienna, Austria
Occupation(s) Keyboardist
Producer
Composer

Peter F. Wolf (born August 26, 1952, Vienna, Austria) is a composer, producer, songwriter and arranger. In 2002, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (Österreichische Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst).[1] Peter Wolf is married to fashion model and songwriter Lea Wolf-Millesi.

Early years

Wolf studied classical piano at Vienna’s Conservatory of Music. At the age of 16, he won the European Jazz Festival as a solo pianist. Wolf was awarded twice with the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, a German award, for his work with André Heller and Erika Pluhar.

Coming to America in his early twenties, Wolf worked with local musicians such as Neal Starkey (bassist) and Bill Hatcher (guitarist) in Atlanta, Georgia and with Steve Sample, Jr. (drummer, son of Steve Sample, Sr.) and Ray Reach (keyboardist, guitarist, vocalist) in Birmingham, Alabama.

After his time in the southeastern United States, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he played keyboards for Frank Zappa in the late 1970s. After his work with Zappa, he then went on to the band Group 87 with Patrick O'Hearn, Terry Bozzio, Peter Maunu, and Mark Isham.

Awards

In 2008, Peter was honored with a BAMA Award (Birmingham Area Music Award) for his contributions to the Birmingham music scene. This award is the local Birmingham equivalent of the Grammy. Peter and Chuck Leavell both performed at the BAMA Award ceremony, backed by the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame All-Stars and directed by Ray Reach.

Recordings made with Frank Zappa

Arrangement and accompaniment

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Film scores

In addition to his career in the world of rock and popular music, Wolf has scored a number of motion pictures including the 1993 film Neverending Story III, and Weekend at Bernie's II. Wolf has also composed many scores in Europe including the new animated picture for the Oscar-winning “Best Foreign Film” producer, Sven Ebeling, entitled “Nutcracker and Mouse King”, nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis. He scored Leon DeWinter’s film The Hollywood Sign, starring Rod Steiger, Burt Reynolds and Tom Berenger.

Wolf’s other compositional credits also include the score for the number one German picture in 1997 Irren Ist Männlich (To Err is a Male Thing), as well as films such as Die Cellistin (The Cellist), Widows, St. Pauli Nacht (St. Pauli Night), The Fearless Four and Band on the Run. In 1995 Wolf received the Billy Wilder Award of the Austrian Film Academy and the University of Vienna.

In 2011, Peter Wolf wrote the music for the Christmas movie Als der Weihnachtsmann vom Himmel fiel. In July 2015 Peter Wolf and Lea Wolf-Millesi launched "Whamslam"- an online based Entertainment platform/App that combines creativity, music and education.

Recordings as a leader

Solo

Albums

Singles

Gipsy Love

Albums

Wolf & Wolf

Albums

Singles

Vienna

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 1509. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
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