Peter Wolf

Peter Wolf is a multi-Grammy nominated, world-renowned composer, producer, songwriter and arranger, and was knighted and awarded with the highest honor of his birth country of Austria, das Groesse Ehrenkreuz der Republik Oesterreich fuer Kunst und Kultur (the big honor cross of the republic). Born in Vienna, Wolf studied classical piano at the Vienna’s Conservatory of Music and won the European Jazz Festival as a solo pianist at age 16. He was awarded twice with the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis which is the German version of the Grammy, for his work on Andre Heller and Erika Pluhar . He came to America in his early 20’s and played keyboard for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in the late 70’s. He was one of America’s top ranking studio keyboardists and arrangers from 1980 to 1985 and became very successful as a music producer and songwriter.
Jefferson Starship's "We Built This City" written by Peter Wolf, Bernie Taupin and Martin Page
Peter Wolf has written eight #1 songs and produced, arranged and/or written for a wide range of musical talents including THE JEFFERSON STARSHIP (“We Built This City”, “Sara”) COMMODORES (“Nightshift”), WANG CHUNG (“Everybody Have Fun Tonight”, “Let’s Go”) EL DEBARGE (“Who’s Johnny” from “Short Circuit”) GO WEST (“King of Wishful Thinking” from “Pretty Woman”, “Faithful”) HEART (“These Dreams”, “What About Love”) PATTI LABELLE (“On My Own”) KENNY LOGGINS (“Playing With The Boys” from “Top Gun”, “Avalon”) ESCAPE CLUB (“I’ll Be There”) PABLO CRUISE, GRACE SLICK, SANTANA, THE POINTER SISTERS, CHICAGO, CLIFF RICHARD, NATALIE COLE, THE SCORPIONS, N’SYNC, OLETA ADAMS, SERGIO MENDES and JOE SAMPLE.
Jefferson Starship's "Sara" written, produced and arranged by Peter Wolf
In addition to his career in the world of rock and popular music Wolf has also scored a number of major motion pictures including the 1993 hit “Never-ending Story III”, and “Weekend at Bernie’s II”. Wolf has also composed many scores in Europe including the new animated picture for the recently Oscar-awarded “Best Foreign Film” producer, Sven Ebeling, entitled “Nutcracker and Mouse King” featuring a star-studded cast which was nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis. He scored Leon DeWinter’s movie “The Hollywood Sign”, starring Rod Steiger, Burt Reynolds and Tom Beringer.
Wang Chung's huge #1 hit "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" was produced and arranged by Peter Wolf for record luminary, David Geffen
Wolf’s impressive compositional credits also include the score for the number one German picture in 1997 “Irren Ist Maennlich”(To Err is a Males Thing), as well as films such as “Die Cellistin”(The Cellist), “Widows”, “St. Pauli Nacht”(St. Pauli Night) and “The Fearless Four”. Peter Wolf is currently composing songs and score for the new American picture “Band on the Run” to be released in 2008. In 1995 Wolf received the “Billy Wilder Award” of the Austrian Film Academy and University of Vienna.
"Playing with the Boys," Produced by Peter Wolf for the hit Movie TOP GUN, performed by Kenny Loggins
With 75 million records sold, Peter Wolf was voted the second most successful musician of the last century by Der Wiener (The Viennese) Austrian magazine magazine, trailing only Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
His TV credits include the enormously popular and second largest TV show in the history of international television, “Kommissar Rex” sold into 107 countries including Asia, Australia, Europe, South America and Canada for the fourth season. He has also composed music for RTL, Pro 7 and SAT 1 productions such as TV movies, “Koerner & Koeter”, “Das Allerbeste Stueck”, “Dance on the Volcano”. He composed the music and produced the entertainment blocks of the World Sports Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London two years in a row. In 2006 he will take over scoring the highly successful series SOKO-Donau for ZDF and ORF .
Wolf composed and performed an 86 minute original millennium symphony he was commissioned to create for the 20th Annual SoundCloud Festival, one of the world’s renowned and acclaimed open air music festivals, that took place on September 4th 1999 in Linz, Austria on the Danube River in front of an audience 123,000 people. Wolf’s PROGRESSION Symphony includes performances by Klaus Maria Brandauer, Coolio, James Ingram, Cliff Richard, Jennifer Paige, Vincenzo LaScola, Steve Lukather of Toto, Julian Rachlin, and Peter’s wife, singer and lyricist Michelle Wolf. Due to its enormous success, he composed and performed a second original symphonic piece for 2004 entitled “SENSE-ATION”, in front of 110,000 people. He has recently signed a new deal with Universal Records International-UK as a jazz and classical artist, where both symphonic CDs are available.His first tour through Europe in September 2005 was a big hit with European Jazzcritics. A swiss journalist wrote , that Peters Band “..was better than anything I heard in Montreax this year.”
He is also writing a musical with his writing partner, lyricist, Michelle Wolf, and world-renowned author Leon DeWinter. The musical will premiere in the historical Ronacher in Vienna, Austria in fall of 2007, and then move on to Tokyo and Berlin.
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