An Award-Winning Master of Genre-Busting Music, Composer-Pianist-Vocalist Peter Saltzman Has Produced Everything From Whimsical One-Minute songs to Brilliant Improvisations to Complex but Accessible Orchestral Scores.
“Imaginative…brilliant”—Chicago Tribune
Check out the music. Check out the podcast. And don’t forget to read the blogs!
Intro to Peter Saltzman
Don’t know where to start? Click for a quick intro to the art of Peter Saltzman…
Provocative Podcast
Improvisations on the Ledge is a podcast about what’s really going on inside the music. For both serious listeners and serious musicians.
Improvisations On the Ledge Returns!
Yes, the provocative podcast returns with a new “theme.” It’s improvised verbal and pianistic performance art of the highest order!
IOTL S3-E1: Theme is the Theme
Summary: After an extended layoff, I've decided to get back to Improvisations On the Ledge by sticking to the theme—literally. The entire season—including this episode—is devoted to musical theme: how we create, perceive it, and make music out of it. Show Notes After...
“Improvisations on The Ledge is a must for musicians, composers, music fans, artists, and indeed anyone with an interest in and appreciation for organic music and creative expression in their purest forms.”
— Rebecca Cullen, Stereo Stickman
Deep Music
Jazz? Classical? Pop? Avant-Garde? No, just great music.
All together. Like it’s meant to be!
Featured Album
Just Released!
Timlessly Unhip Pop Songs
These were already timelessly unhip pop songs when I first released some of them 17 years ago. That’s the beauty. They’ll always be timelessly unhip!
Featured Track
“Just Plain Genius”
The Song in Between
When does a melody become something other than a song? Easy: when you develop the theme beyond what we are familiar with as being “a song.” But does that mean it’s no longer a song?
“A Genius Musical Craftsman”
Painted Piano?
Introducing Piano Sketches
Watch and listen as painter Jeremy Harrison and pianist Peter Saltzman perform duets—across art forms!
A Pop Arty Abstraction
This trippy Jeremy Harrison painting, improvised on Peter Saltzman’s solo piano improvisation Poppy Asymmetric Bounce, perfectly captures the color and whimsy of the music.
Featured Piano Sketch
Dark Morning, Take 1
Jeremy tries to create painterly space in time as he uses his Buddha board to follow Peter’s slow-moving piano ostinato.
And Read About the Concept