Peter
Herbert

Since 2003 Peter Herbert has been working and living in Paris and Vienna after 16 years in NYC and plays an average of 100 concerts a year with about 100.000 miles of annual traveling distances in precorona-times. As a much in demand ’sideman’ he collaborated in the past with musicians like Marc Copland/John Abercrombie Quartett, Bobby Previte's "The Horse", John Clark Octet, Robin Eubanks 'Mental Images’, or Marcel Khalife. His work has been well documented on well over 180 CD-recordings (incl. Paul Simon)

Peter Herbert is also a versatile composer with works for various orchestras and chamber groups like the ensemble plus, SOV, absolute ensemble in NYC, a recent work is his opera ‘Trans Maghreb’ for the Bregenzer Festspiele 2014. He established his own Internet-based label Aziza Music in 1999 (www.azizamusic.com). Since 2007 Herbert has been teaching bass, improvisation and composition at the JIM at the Anton-Bruckner Privat University in Linz and recently started curating the strenge Kammer at Vienna’s Porgy&Bess. 

www.peterherbert.at