Performer

Peter Pejtsik, the performer…

“I graduated as a Cellist in the Bartók Conservatory of Budapest, but I quit playing Cello after that (I thought it was for a lifetime). I started Liszt Ferenc Music Academy on the faculty of Musicology but later my attention turned back to practical musicianship. In my high school years I learnt to play the Bass Guitar too, to interiorize the “other vernacular” and to be able to melt these elements the right way. But even on the Cello I was imitating the Electric Guitar many times with which I amused myself and my friends as we haven’t heard such sounds being played on the Cello back in the 80’s in Hungary. The first time I played the Electric Cello was decades later. I stumbled upon my elder sister’s old violin around the age of 20, and I was quite surprised that “no one told me that I could play the Fiddle?” Well, I couldn’t really, I have mostly fiddled around some ethno and blues-rock, but I keep enjoying keeping it between my knees as a soprano cello. Sometimes I pluck my father’s double bass, most recently on my daughter’s recording of her song, the White Elephant. I compose a lot on the piano but that is not public. Conducting came as a byproduct of composing and arranging-orchestrating: when I didn’t have enough time to put all the little dynamic and articulation markings in the scores I gave the orchestra, I said “I’ll show you, OK?” And somehow I stuck in front of the orchestra and more and more people asked me to conduct their music too. Even later I had the luck of conducting the music of those who have long lost the ability to ask me… There is quite a nice little list of the filmscores I had the chance to help recording. Many a time I see them with great joy in some shortlists. Once upon a time I did sing too, I even have some proof for that, but since I thought I was not good enough at it, I quit (public) singing two decades ago. But what I started recently (yet in Hungarian oly) is speaking publicly about the things that amaze me in listening and composing music. I also gather the courage bring forth my opinion about other things of the world too.

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