Peter Blauvelt was born in France and grew up in Germany where he began his studies in composition and piano. In 1975 he came to the U.S. where he studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. There he received three degrees - including a doctorate in composition - and taught theory, composition and piano.
Since 1968 he has often given recitals - not only of his own pieces - in the U.S., France and Germany in public and on the radio, and has received numerous prizes for both composition and piano. Meanwhile, his pieces have also been performed in other European and North American countries.
After leaving the Boston area for Florida in 1984, he co-founded the “Tampa Bay Composers' Forum” in 1989 and served as treasurer, vice-president and president. He also founded Creative Arts and Tutoring Services” in 1990. To date, he has written over 135 compositions, mostly chamber music, and has had over 100 of them performed in public. A number of compositions are also available on commercial CD's.
Web: http://www.music-usa.org/nacusa-ma/all_bios.html (2011)