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…
Deep Music
Jazz? Classical? Pop? Avant-Garde? No, just great music.
All together. Like it’s meant to be!
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Featured Track
“Just Plain Genius”
Hello, Keith Jarrett
I was with either my ex-girlfriend or my dad when I first went to a Keith Jarrett concert. Either way, she was there, which may be the reason why it was also the last. I should go again.
“A Genius Musical Craftsman”
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.
New Episode!
IOTL S2-E7: Planned Chance
My plan was to dive into Part 2 of my “End of Melody Episode,“ but by chance, I rolled the dice and came up with something completely different. Unplanned, but fated to be this way? Possibly.
“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
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
Merged: Painted Music
It’s painted music, as Jeremy Harrison improvises an impermanent painting on his Buddha Board to a frenetic Peter Saltzman piano improv.
And Read About the Concept