Peter Ostroushko

Peter Ostroushko
Peter Ostroushko playing mandolin in 2014
Background information
Birth name	Peter Ostroushko
Born	August 12, 1953 Minneapolis, Minnesota
Genres	Americana, folk
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Mandolin, fiddle, guitar
Labels	Rounder, Red House
Associated acts	Garrison Keillor, The Guys All-Star Shoe Band, Robin and Linda Williams, Dean Magraw
Website	www.peterostroushko.com

Peter Ostroushko (born August 12, 1953) is an American violinist and mandolinist.

Of Ukrainian ancestry, Ostroushko grew up in northeast Minneapolis. He has released numerous recordings and is a regular performer on the A Prairie Home Companion radio program.

Ostroushko's first recording session was an uncredited mandolin player on Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks. He has toured with Robin and Linda Williams, Norman Blake and Chet Atkins. Ostroushko also worked with Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Johnny Gimble, Greg Brown, John Hartford and the New Orleans-based rock/blues band The Radiators [1], among many others.

Ostroushko has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Ostroushko's compositions have been performed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Sinfonia, the Rochester Symphony Orchestra, the Des Moines Symphony and the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra. In 2009, he played with the Minnesota Youth Symphonies at Orchestra Hall. Music from Heart of the Heartland was used by Ken Burns for the PBS documentary Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery and his arrangement of "Sweet Betsy from Pike" was used in Burns' Mark Twain.