Peter Breinholt
| Peter Breinholt | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 31, 1969 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genres | Folk, rock, pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, producer, performer |
| Instruments | guitar, piano, drums, ukulele, banjo, bass |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Website | peterbreinholt |
Peter Breinholt (born March 31, 1969 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is a recording artist popular in the Salt Lake City, Utah local music scene.
Breinholt grew up in Devon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where his father Robert H. Breinholt taught at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is brother to Jeffrey Breinholt.
Growing up, Breinholt taught himself how to play piano, guitar and drums by listening to Beatles songs. At the age of 11, he began writing his own songs. After his father took a teaching position at the University of Utah, which took the family to Salt Lake City, Breinholt spent his teenage years in a band made up of friends performing 60's, 70's and 80's cover songs at college fraternity parties and high school "stomps". It wasn't until Peter became a student at the University of Utah, however, that he began performing his own songs alone at informal gatherings and at local restaurants. A homemade tape of his music began circulating on the University of Utah campus, which lead to requests by friends for an official recording. In response, Breinholt rented a local studio in June 1993 and tracked 12 songs over three days. The resulting album, "Songs About the Great Divide" [1], became the best-selling, independently released CD ever in the state of Utah, almost entirely by word-of-mouth [2]. It was described by Salt Lake Magazine as "an underground classic on college campuses". Breinholt's concerts began selling out local theaters and concert halls, including Kingsbury Hall, Capitol Theatre, Tuacahn, the de Jong Concert Hall, Ellen Eccles Theatre, Sundance Resort Amphitheater, Sandy Amphitheater and the Thanksgiving Point Waterfall Amphitheater.
As his audiences grew, Breinholt began adding members to his live performing group, including pianist David Tolk, bluegrass musician Ryan Shupe, and cellist Steven Sharp Nelson. It was during this period that the group road-tested many of the songs that later appeared on Breinholt's next two studio albums, "Heartland" (1996) [3] and "Deep Summer" (1999) [4].
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