Peter Breinholt

Peter Breinholt is a recording artist in the Salt Lake City, Utah music scene.

Peter Breinholt
Peter Breinholt performing in 2019
Background information
Born	(1969-03-31) March 31, 1969 (age 56) Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
Genres	Folk, rock, pop
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, producer, performer
Instruments	guitar, piano, drums, ukulele, banjo, bass
Years active	1993–present
Website	peterbreinholt.com

Breinholt grew up in Devon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where his father Robert H. Breinholt taught at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. When Peter was ten years old his family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the brother of Jeffrey Breinholt.^[1] He has three other siblings.

Career

While Breinholt was a student at the University of Utah, he and friends Mike Ensign and Rex Griffiths made an amateur recording of songs Breinholt had written and called it "Songs About the Great Divide". ^[2] It became the best-selling independently released album ever in the state of Utah up to that time almost entirely by word-of-mouth.^[1] Salt Lake Magazine would describe the album as "an underground classic on Utah college campuses". Almost overnight, Breinholt's concerts began selling out 2,000-plus seat theaters throughout the region. The success of the album and subsequent performances would lead to the release of Heartland ^[3]in 1996 and Deep Summer ^[4]in 1999. In 2001, Breinholt released a live album recorded at the Eccles Outdoor Amphitheater at the Sundance Mountain Resort.

Since then Breinholt has continued to release music and perform.

During the first half of 2018, Breinholt and his family moved to the beach town Canoa in Ecuador where he wrote songs for his fifth album of original music entitled "The Counting Of Nothing" released later that year.

In March 2019, Peter gave a TEDx talk in Provo, Utah, entitled "What Makes You Come Alive?".^[5][6]

Personal life

Peter is married to Rebecca Pulsipher Breinholt and they have four children. They currently live in Sheffield, England.

Recordings

• Songs about the Great Divide (1993)
• Heartland (1996)
• Deep Summer (1999)
• Live September (2001)
• Noel (2002)
• All the Color Green (2006)
• The Best of Peter Breinholt (May 2008)
• The Counting of Nothing (2018)