Category: Original Compositons

  • Geoff Peters Trio performing at Mexx Boutique (video recordings)

    My band, the Geoff Peters Trio, performed at the Mexx Boutique in Pacific Centre during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. We made a video recording of one of our sets. To listen, please visit the Playlist on Youtube, or use the player below. Here is a list of the songs we performed, (mostly jazz standards) with…

  • Ocean Apart – original composition by Geoff Peters (piano)

    Last night I made a video recording of myself performing an original jazz bebop tune on the piano. It’s called Ocean Apart and I wrote it last summer while taking a composition class with New York jazz pianist Misha Piatigorsky. You can view the video on Youtube, Blip.tv, or use the player below. The MP3…

  • TonyFrog – Orchestral music video about a green stuffed animal frog

    I tried out my new video camera (a Panasonic AG-DVX100A) and filmed my stuffed animal frog which I bought at the Daiso Japanese dollar store in Richmond, BC, Canada. The very same evening, I christened my green friend with the name of TonyFrog. So here is TonyFrog’s debut performance on video. The rather “epic” classical…

  • New Composition – Wild Thing (by Geoff Peters)

    Today I wrote a new song: it’s called “Wild Thing” and is inspired by the movie Where the Wild Things Are. Click here to download the song or feel free to use the player above to listen. To watch me perform the song, check out this Ear Training Video we made, where I explain how…

  • New Composition: “Me N Petrof” by Geoff Peters

    My friend Marcus was over for a visit today and he encouraged me to write a song dedicated to the new “love” in my life, my Petrof acoustic piano. So I wrote a simple folk ballad which I call “Me N Petrof“. It is similar to a Brad Mehldau song I vaguely remember listening to,…

  • New Recording: All I Want To Do – Angela Molineux featuring Geoff Peters

    My talented globetrotting singer-songwriter friend, Angela Molineux, dropped by my place today for a visit, and we wrote and recorded a new song, called All I Want To Do. We originally started working on this song 3 years ago when we were both living in Vancouver. Since then Angela has performed and lived in Italy,…

  • CATcerto – a cat plays the piano with an orchestra

    This is simply amazing. Lithuanian conductor and composer Mindaugas Piečaitis found videos on Youtube of a very talented, musical cat, Nora the Piano Cat and decided to write a concerto for her. The concerto, called CATcerto (web site) was first performed by Nora and the Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra in Lithuania on June 5th 2009. The…

  • Afternoon in New York by Geoff Peters – electronic synth music

    I had a fun afternoon playing around with my synthesizer (Korg MS-2000) and composed/recorded a new song. It is called Afternoon in New York. Afternoon in New York by Geoff Peters Listen: Download the song (free): Mp3 It features a really simple hip-hop style bass drum/snare (thanks to the Garage Band Hip Hop Synthesized drum…

  • Music video for Quiet Night by Geoff Peters Trio

    I am happy to announce the release of the music video for the song Quiet Night by my band, the Geoff Peters Trio. The song is from our album Quiet Night (which is available worldwide from iTunes and CDBaby). Feel free to watch below or on Youtube. The band is: Geoff Peters piano Mark White…

  • New Recording – Geoff and Angela “Casta Diva”

    My friend, singer and songwriter Angela Molineux and I recorded another song last night, “Casta Diva”. It’s an emotional song that blends the genres of pop and classical in the form of “classical crossover”. For more info you can check out Angela’s myspace page here. Casta Diva composed by Angela M. and Geoff P. words…