Peter Croton grew up in the USA and presently lives in Switzerland. As a child of six he began performing as a folk guitarist and singer. Peter’s musical roots in folk and jazz were supplemented by studies of the lute and classical guitar with Loris Chobanian at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (USA), and with Eugen Dombois and Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. In 1984 he won first prize at the “Erwin Bodky” competition for Early Music in Boston, and has also won prizes at the international lute competition “Guitar ‘84” in Toronto and at the international competition “Concert Artists’ Guild” in New York City. He is an active performer in Europe and the USA as a soloist and chamber musician, and his musical spectrum reaches from early music to folk, jazz, and popular idioms. Peter teaches lute, historical performance practice, and guitar continuo at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the Conservatories of Music in Basel and Bern. Since 1984 he has been involved in numerous CD, radio and television productions. In 2001 six of his compositions were published by the German Lute Society, and his tutor, “Figured Bass on the Classical Guitar” has recently been published by Amadeus in Switzerland.
Peter Croton on Zah Zah