Breiner, Peter (1957 )
Born in 1957, Peter Breiner is known as a composer, conductor, pianist and arranger. He began to study the piano at the age of four and his exceptional results led to his early acceptance at the Conservatory in Košice. He studied piano, composition, conducting and percussion, later studying composition with Alexander Moyzes, one of the most significant figures in modern Slovak music. Peter Breiner has lived in Toronto, Canada since 1992. As a Naxos in-house arranger and conductor, he is perhaps best known for his numerous orchestral arrangements, including award-winning Baroque versions of the Beatles. Breiner’s distinctive arrangements of all national anthems were used during the Olympic Games in Athens 2004. With over 150 CDs in the last ten years Breiner has conducted, often doubling as a pianist, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre National de Lille, among many others.