the frontline archives | outtakes | interesting stuff | Entertainment ... soon to come :-) We are looking trough our archives to bring you amazing, rare and interesting footage. Stay tuned! This is part of an interview with multi grammy nominated producer Peter Wolf. With more than 60 million records sold and numerous awards Peter Wolf is the most successful Austrian musician and producer of popular music of the present. Already at the age of 16 Peter won the European Jazz Festival. He studied classical piano at the Academy of Music in Vienna for 10 years before he moved to the USA at the age of 23. There he started as a keyboarder for Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention. Between 1980 and 1985 he became a well known studio keyboarder and arranger and was nominated for a Grammy as "Best Arranger" for a duet of Thelma Houston and Dennis Edwards in 1985. During his career as producer, songwriter and co-songwriter Peter worked with such well known artists as e.g. Starship ("We Built This City", "Sara"), El Debarge ("Who's Johnny" from the film SHORT CIRCUIT), Wang Chung ("Everybody Have Fun Tonight"), Commodores ("Nightshift"), Go West ("King of Wishful Thinking" for the feature film PRETTY WOMAN). Furthermore he produced longplayers for artists like Chicago, Vesta Williams, Nik Kershaw, Big Country, Wang Chung, Paul Young, Pointer Sisters, Go West, Lou Gramm etc. With his first score for a feature film, WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S II, Peter began another career in this field in 1993. Since then and through several feature film scores Peter has become an outstanding name among the European score composers. Big features he did include: THE NEVERENDING STORY III, FATHER'S DAY, DIE CELLISTIN and TANZ AUF DEM VULKAN. In 1997 Peter composed and produced 11 Songs for the animation feature THE FEARLESS FOUR (Bioskop Film/Warner Bros.) with the artists Oleta Adams, Zucchero, James Ingram and BB King as well as the whole score. In 1998 and 1999 Peter produced albums for Cliff Richard and The Scorpions and did the score for Sherry Hormann's feature WIDOWS incl. two songs, one by N'Sync and one by Zucchero. He also composed the scores for Sönke Wortmann's ST. PAULI NIGHT and THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN, starring Burt Reynolds, Rod Steiger and Tom Berenger. In 1999 Peter composed, produced and performed his symphony Progression. The premiere on the Donau island in Linz with an audience of 120.000 people was the biggest live-event in Austria ever.

• published: 11 Mar 2014
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