Institute for Music and Health

Peter Kiewra is the original Everything Kid: he sings, he dances, and he plays great piano and trumpet. And not just other people’s stuff, for he is also a great improviser. What’s more he is stylistically broad, being equally at home in jazz, popular, classical, or blues. With a student as talented and diverse as Peter, we believe it essential to encourage every aspect of his musicianship-the improvisation, the various instruments, and styles he plays and to do so in a way that nurtures his creativity and his love of what he does.

Here he is singing and trumpeting his way through the jazz standard “Ac-cen-tchu-ate the Positive”:

Now see him singing and “hoofing” his way through “Hello, My Baby,” an old vaudeville number:

In a totally different vein, here is Franck’s “Panis Angelicus”:

Shifting gears again, a totally spontaneous improvisation for two pianos:

Let’s finish with a soulful version of the Beatles’ “In My Life”: