Peter Maleitzke

Location:

San Francisco
United States 94114

Contact:

www.petermaleitzke.com
415-206-9466

Additional Info:

Peter Maleitzke is a nationally recognized Accompanist, singing teacher and musical director. His students include Tony Award Winners, Broadway and National Tour performers, principals in international opera houses, cabaret and recording artists. In 2007, Maleitzke’s studio was represented by actors starring and singing in three major release motion pictures. His students have also been frequent competition finalists and are regularly accepted into prestigious music festivals and training programs.
He most recently was the Musical Director for “Rivets”, a musical based on the lives of the home-front soldiers of WWII. “Rivets” is performed on the Red Oak Victory in Rosie The Riveter National Park. In the last several years, Maleitzke taught “Art Song and Acting” at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and was master singing teacher for the Theater Arts Institute of The American Musical Theater of San Jose. He was Music Director of a pre-Broadway workshop of The Geeks. These projects overlapped with his work as Musical Director of the first San Francisco performances of Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns and the completion of an eleven-year residence at the American Conservatory Theater as Associate Artist, Music Director and Master Singing Teacher in the M.F.A. program.
Maleitzke’s other recent projects include composing an original score for The Gamester, which won the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for best Original Score. He worked on the workshop of Far From The Maddening Crowd, directed a cabaret production of Pippin, and was the arranger and composer for The Three Sisters. He also worked as Associate Music Director of Urinetown (First National), Music Director for Carey Perloff's The Colossus of Rhodes, Brecht’s and Weill’s Happy End (featuring Betty Buckley), and the Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing (performed in three cities to sold out houses), world-premiere A.C.T. productions of The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (Featuring Julia Migenes and Kronos String Quartet), Marc Blitzstein's No for an Answer, A.C.T.'s The Threepenny Opera featuring Bebe Neuworth, Nancy Dusault, Lisa Vroman and Anika Noni Rose. Maleitzke won the Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Award and BackStage West Garland Award for this production. Previously, he was the conductor of the first national production of The Phantom of the Opera. His regional credits include Gypsy (for which he won a Dean Goodman Award), A Little Night Music, Rags, and The Most Happy Fella and Closer Than Ever.
Mr. Maleitzke is frequently involved in the development of new work for music theater. First Picture Show culminated in a 40 performance run at the Geary Theater, collaborating with composer Jenine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie) and Ellen Green (Little Shop of Horrors), “27” involved notating definitive Gospel songs by Edwin Hawkins (Oh Happy Day) and integrating them in the rehearsal process and performances with lean, powerful songs by Amanda Mcbroom (The Rose). The Count of Monte Cristo development process included 4 workshops, composer Brad Carroll (Lend Me A Tenor) and performers Davis Gaines and Lisa Vroman.
Maleitzke has worked extensively as a vocal coach, studio recording pianist and producer for many of the major networks and studios of Los Angeles, most notably the series Taken, whose executive producer was Steven Spielberg.
Maleitzke has bachelor and masters degrees from the University of Michigan, where his principle instructors were Leon Fleischer and Martin Katz. He was musical assistant to Michael Tilson Thomas, and conductor of the Tuscan Music Festival. Mr. Maleitzke studied Bel Canto Technique and Vocal Pedagogy with Dixon Titus in San Francisco.
Maleitzke currently is focusing his attention on his private studio and developing a book, Acting and Singing in the 21st Century.

Fees

$ 100.00 Dollars Per Hour
The hourly fee is negotiable based on frequency and services required.

Instruments

Piano, Electronic Keyboard

Specialisms

Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment, Vocal Repetiteur, Musical Theatre, Musical Direction

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