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Peter Blanchette, Composer & Archguitarist
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Forbidden Love: the Musical by Alexander, “Xandy” Janko (collaboration) 2009 (25”)
-Composed Early Music style versions of modern pop songs for an original Broadway show in production with Grammy Award-winning composer Alexander Janko (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, R.E.M.’s Man on the Moon).
All Though the Night: Selections from The Great Song Book 2007-2008 (47”) Arranged full-length CD from the 1950’s British Isles classic children’s song collection from the British Isles for Jane Bryden, internationally acclaimed early music and opera soprano, chairwoman of the Department of Music, Smith College.
-CD recording of 24 updated arrangements featuring mother Jane Bryden with daughter Nell Bryden (independent-label folk-rock singer-songwriter) with flautist Chris Krueger (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society) and Peter Blanchette (archguitars, plucked instruments).
Inside the Tuscan Hills, Episodes 1-6 (complete series) Original Score 2003 (180”) Composed and produced complete score for six thirty-minute episode cultural television program about the history, craft and culture of Italy’s Tuscany region.
-Distributed to PBS Television, Directed by Dakkan Abbe, for Fifty Rubies films.
Album: Had Miles Met Maurice (DORIAN #dor-93198) 2000 (58:06”) Composed, produced and arranged full-length CD for The Virtual Consort, composer’s trio of trumpet, bass and 11-string archguitar.
-Selected by AudioPhile on-line magazine as a “Top 100 Jazz CDs of 2001”
Buster Keaton’s 1927 film “The Navigator,” Original Score 2000 (77”) Composed for multi-instrumental ensemble.
-Performed at the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, (MIFA) 2000/2002 Peter Blanchette, archguitar, electric guitar, banjo, madolin, dulcimer, electric bass, voice, sound effects. Jean Chaine, bass, drums, Alki Steriopulous, accordion, piano.
Buster Keaton’s 1926 film “The General,” Original Score 1999 (118”) Composed for multi-instrumental ensemble.
-Performed at the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, (MIFA) 1999/ 2002 with Peter Blanchette, archguitar, electric guitar, banjo, mandolin, dulcimer, electric bass, voice, sound effects. Charlie Schneeweis, trumpet, valve trombone, garden hose. Jean Chaine, bass, drums, Dan deWalt, Piano.
North/South for String Orchestra 1998 (12:35”) Composed string orchestra work. First prize, MCC Artist Grant Competition
-Performed at Jordan Hall in Boston by the Massachusetts Cultural Council Composer's Festival Orchestra, conducted by Richard Hoenich.
Had Miles Met Maurice 1998 (4:16”) Composed for Trumpet, Archguitar and Bass.
-Performed on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keilor, live broadcast from the Town Hall Theater, New York, by the composer with The Virtual Consort; Charlie Schneeweis, trumpet, Jean Chaine, bass, Peter Blanchette, archguitar, 2000.
