Peter ARNESEN
Studio Pianist / Arranger / Composer / Songwriter / Performer
Session Pianist & Keyboards / London 1970 – 1983
Recording and live work with many personalities in Rock-Pop & Jazz Music of the 1960’s and 70’s
– Guitarist Mick Ronson (David Bowie)
– Graham Nash
– Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople)
– John Grimaldi
– Joe Brown
– Leo Sayer
– Petula Clark
– Helen Henderson
– Sheena Easton
– Amii Stewart
– Dana Gillespie
– Simon Phillips
– Lynsey de Paul
– Cameron Brown
– Mick Cox
– Tony Scott
– Peter Noone
– Jim Leverton
– Dick Morrissey / IF
– Henry Spinetti
– Michael Edwards
– Graham Parsons
– Tony Hatch
– Robin Black
Live work and recording with many well known bands such as:
– IF
– The Hollies
– Chaser
– The Mick Cox Band
– Coast Road Drive
– The Rubettes
– Daddy Longlegs
– Taggett
– Leo Sayer Band / Silverbird
– Cheap Flights
– Bacon Fat
– Hunter – Ronson
Co-founder and lecturer at the Department for Jazz, Popularmusic and Improvisation from 1987 – 2012 at the:
– UNIVERSITY MOZARTEUM, SALZBURG
– CarlORFF INSTITUT, SALZBURG
– Abt. 11 / MOZARTEUM in INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA
COMPOSING / RECORDING /
PERFORMING / ARRANGING since 1983
1985 / Munich Dance Festival / Munich Germany / “Gouille Ga Yar” / Live Dance, Electronics and Percussion
1986 / ORFF Symposioum 1968 / Sakzburg, Austria / “Connecntions” / Sound Design for a choreography by Barbara Haselbach
Performance for Mixed Dance and Live Electronics
1990 / ORFF Institute / “MIDanceQ” / Choreography by Margarida Amaral and Lucinda Weaver /
Performance for Dance and Live Electronics
1992 / CD “Alphorngesänge” Mini Moog / Improvisation for Alphorn, Midi Violin and Mini Moog peterarnesen.bandcamp.com
2000 / “Kampfzone” / Live Electronics- Sound Design Performance to selected Texts from the French writer Michel Houellebecq
Performance of Sound Design with Electronic Keyboards / Electric Guitar and Vocals / with dramatised readings by the actress Barbara Gassner
2007 / Ensemble “Kleckhéscht” / “Über d’ Schneid” Klavier: Peter Arnesen, Stimme: Christiane Schober peterarnesen.bandcamp.com
2007 / “Jazz Ensemble Úngút” www.ensembleungut.com / Arrangements to traditional Icelandic Folk Music
Chambermusic jazz for Voice, Piano and Doublebass
2008 / “Songs of Iceland” www.ensembleungut.com / Klanglogo
2012 / “Blástjárnan” Songs of Iceland Vol ll www.ensembleungut.com /
2020 / Voted in to join the board of the “Austrian Society of Composers and Songwriters” ACOM
2021 / Im Rahmen der “Austrian Music Week” Schwerpunkt “Improvisation” Improvisationen am Klavier / 10 Juni, Live Stream Concert im trans-Art Studio, Salzburg.
