- RESUME -
Education
Undergraduate studies at
New York School
of Music -
piano major,
arranging, performing, solfegio
AA & BA in EDUCATION - Felician
College
Chicago University Correspondance
courses-
composition, music theory
Professional Experience
Scored & played
documentaries for PBS-
WNET and
WGBH
Tutored piano and organ students in
private schools and classes for 40 years.
Performed jazz, pop and light classics
in nightclubs regularly for 30 years
as a solo act
and in trios & quartets.
Over
40 years performing & accompanying
choral groups for
church services,
weddings, funerals:
- Catholic (traditional & modern
mass)
- Christian Science- Methodist- Lutheran
Early Experience
-
13 years old -
Performed at the Ed Sullivan Theater
Talent Show
won a contract to play piano on radio
broadcasts for
WABC and WQRX
Peter's mother sold eggs to raise
money for
his piano lessons. Throughout
his life,
Peter taught piano to young
and old,
beginners and professionals, he loved teaching.
From a few eggs a life of music was
made possible.
classical |
scoring
for tv |
popular
improv |
"La
Cathedrale Engloutie" Claude
Debussey (screened in museums throughout the world) |
The
Kissing Booth with Quentin Crisp (for PBS TV) |
"Autumn
Leaves" "Misty" "Never On A Sunday" "Tea For Two" |
PETER ALDIGHIERI - A BRIEF HISTORY
Peter
Aldighieri was born July 1, 1925 in Ridgefield Park N.J.
At the age of 13
his professional piano life started and it never stopped until he did on January
12th 2010.
The
son of Jerry Aldighieri and Elsie Darwin Aldighieri, his maternal grandmother
played a vital part in his life by selling hen's eggs to raise money for piano
lessons. When he reached 13 years old, his father died, his mother went to
hospital, and he went to work playing piano in local bars.
He served in the Navy and tested Torpedos in Maryland during the Korean War.
With a G.I. scholarship he studied at the New York Conservatory of music until
they realised he had not graduated high school. Many years later after raising
a family he returned to Felician College and earned a Batchelor of Arts degree
in Teaching.
Peter
was an inventive genious of the piano who worked in many clubs and restaurants
in Passaic County and Ocean County. He gave private piano lessons to young
and old throughout his long career in music. His first wife Joan bore him
2 daughters. His second wife Eleanore passed before him and in gratitude for
his wife's final care he gave concerts and lead choral singing for seniors
at the Baylee Nursing Home, and played for services at the Forked River Methodist
Church and a Methodist Church service at the Tim Ryan Funeral Home.
Having perfect pitch and a fascination for mathematics, Peter was
a jazzman at heart.
He loved to compose songs off the top of his head based on your phone number
or favorite date. He
loved teaching. Many of his students went on to exciting careers in carpentry,
chicken farming, espionage, transportation, money-laundering, catering, and
of course, music.