Peter Blanchette
virtuoso-inventor
of the archguitar
- A repertoire of arrangements and compositions from the13th century French polyphony of Perotin to the 1960’s film scores of Nino Rota, with stops nearly everywhere between.
- A nearly 50 year career committed to the music of J.S. Bach, with hundreds of solo, duo & ensemble performances.
Archguitar Duo • El Gran Sonído
now available digitally and on CD.
Blanchette’s collaboration with Spanish guitarist Mané Larregla rejoices in the rich and delicate sound of two archguitars.
A lifetime devoted to a new approach to ancient music, on a new instrument.
Blanchette has arranged hundreds of Bach’s violin, solo ‘cello, lute, piano, and orchestral compositions for archguitar, reconceptualizing and revitalizing the brilliance of Bach’s original works.
Blanchette performs these pieces from memory, with “ornamentation and rhythmic intricacies… so creative that they [give] the impression that Blanchette [is] composing the music on the spot.”
Kirsten Swanson, NPR
scores for film & television
Peter Blanchette has scored for numerous television shows and films, including HBO's Sex and the City, USA’s Royal Pains, Cannes Palme D'Or nominee Illuminata (dir. John Turturro), and three of Buster Keaton's silent masterpieces: The General, The Navigator and Steamboat Bill, Jr.