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Peter Fish - Composer

Peter Fish

Peter Fish’s talents as a composer/arranger/producer span feature films, Top 10 singles and network television series.  He composed Abel Ferrara’s Warner Bros. Film Bodysnatchers, while co-producing the score.  His most recent filmscore is for A Tale of Two Pizzas, starring Frank Vincent and Vincent Pastore, which enjoyed a 26 market limited release. He also scored the feature documentary Tie-Died and scenes of Samuel Goldwyn Co’s feature Wigstock the Movie (both premiering at the Sundance Film Festival).   Other features also include Sony’s interactive film Ride For Your Life; the much acclaimed documentary feature Painting the Town; and HBO Undercover’s critically acclaimed Dead Blue, Panic, The Vampire Murders, Suicide and Crank, all directed by Eames Yates.  He is the sole composer working on HBO’s Cathouse and Real Sex series.  He is also the composer of both the theme music and underscore for the acclaimed PBS series A Moment of Luxury for which he recently garnered his 17th Emmy nomination in the category “Best Original Theme Song”. He was nominated for the Emmy for music score, 1999-2000 for his work on Panic.  He co-composed and produced the score of Ferrara’s Dangerous Games, for MGM and Madonna’s Maverick Films.  He also scored the 1999 Emmy Award Winning Voices of the Children (Best Television Documentary) by Zussana Justman, as well as her recently completed A Trial in Prague.  Recently he made his NYC theatrical debut as composer of “The Unlucky Man in the Yellow Cap” for the New York Fringe Festival.  Earlier this year he recorded and conduction three original compositions commissioned by the Czech National Symphony in Prague.  He recently completed Joyce Dragnosky's short feature Happenstance starring Jay O. Sanders for HBO and I Was A Creature from Outer Space, the pre-quel to Vinny Sassone's upcoming feature Monster Makers.

Peter is currently nominated for an Emmy (2010) for Best Original Theme Song for his composition “Moment of Luxury” for the PBS series of the same name. Among his many honors are the 2002, 2003 and 2005 Emmys for Best Original Score for a Daytime Drama (All My Children), as well as three additional Emmys for his work on Sesame St., ASCAP’s “Most Performed Themes” award for three years, 2000, 2001 and 2004, a Grand Mercury Award for NBC’s Today promo theme, a Gold Mobius Advertising Award, inclusion in The Hollywood Reporter’s “Who’s Who in Composing”, ASCAP Special Awards for sixteen consecutive years, a Monitor Award, New York Festivals Awards and a total of 6 Emmy Awards and 17 Emmy nominations.

Peter constantly creates music and sound design for television; his work reaches 200 million homes worldwide.  Along with his primetime themes for CBS’s Street Stories and Verdict, he has also composed and/or produced themes for The Rosie O’Donnell Show, A Current Affair (both the original version and 2005 version, Extra, Fox 5 News (NY), HBO’s groundbreaking series Real Sex, The Jane Whitney Show, The Judge Mathis Show, Curtis Court, CBS’s Face the Nation, NBC’s A Closer Look, the CBS special Charles Kuralt:  One for The Road, MSNBC’s The News With Brian Williams, and NBC’s special Lost Youth of Hollywood and A Day at the White House, as well as themes for CBS Evening News and all three network morning shows.  His work also regularly is featured on Harpo Productions Oprah show. In London, he composed and recorded all the thematic material for NBC SuperChannel, the largest pan-European general entertainment television network.  In addition, he has composed scores for Lifetime’s Good Housekeeping TV & Our Home, MSG’s Live from the Play by Play, NY-1 News and countless other television specials and series.  Among Peter’s musical feats for television was the symphonic score for former Vice President Al Gore’s video biography at his nomination for the Presidency, which premiered at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles to a television audience in excess of twenty million viewers.  That presentation culminated in the former VP’s now famous on stage kiss with his wife Tipper.  In the 2004 campaign, Peter has scored all of John Kerry’s campaign commercials to great acclaim.

Feature Films / Documentaries

Bodysnatchers (Warner Bros.)
Dangerous Games (MGM)
Wigstock (Samuel Goldwyn)
Tie Died (ISA Releasing)
Ride for Your Life (Sony Interactive)
Manny & Lo (Sony Classics)
Panic (HBO)
The Vampire Murders (HBO)
Dead Blue (HBO)
Intimate Betrayal (Arrow Films)
Suicide (HBO)
Middle School Confessions (HBO)
Cathouse (HBO)
Tale of Two Pizzas (Newmark/Echelon)

Recording Artists Produced

Carly Simon
Judy Collins
Johnny Winter
Phoebe Snow
Tony Bennett
Peaches & Herb
Freddy Cole
Frankie Galasso

Major Television Shows / Projects

Rosie O’Donnell Show – Telepictures-  (Theme)
Face The Nation –CBS-  (Theme)
Caroline Rhea Show – Telepictures-(Theme)
Extra –Telepictures-(Theme)
Jenny Jones Show –Telepictures-(Theme)
48Hours –CBS-(Theme)
The News with Brian Williams –CNBC- (Theme)
Sesame St. (4 Emmy nominations, 2 Emmys)
HBO Undercover (6 separate hours)
HBO Real Sex
CBS Early Show (Promos)
Voices of the Children (1999 Emmy-Best TV Documentary)
A Current Affair -20th Television- (Theme)
Curtis Court –KingWorld-(Theme)
Judge Mathis –Telepictures-(Theme)
Jane Whitney Show –Telepictures-(Theme)
Mobile Court –Endemol-(Theme)
NY-1 News –TimeWarner-(Theme)
MSG Network (Theme)NY Mets Baseball –MSG-(Theme)
MSG Sportsdesk (Theme)
Anything For Love – Fox– (Theme and Underscore)
All My Children (Songs and Underscores, 5 Emmy nominations, 3 Emmys)
Oprah (Themes and Underscores)
A24 – All African News Channel (Theme)
PBS Moment of Luxury – 2010 Emmy Nomination