Music Producer - Peter Young

  • Peter Young

  • Growing up in New York State and coming from a musical family, Peter had many different musical outlets to develop his skills to become a worldclass drummer. At the age of 7 , Peter took to the drums and has never turned back. Through out his middle school & high school years he took drum lessons, performed in drum & bugle corps, summer stock theater, countless live gigs with country, pop, jazz and rock groups.

    "Being able to be part of different musicial situations when growing up really helped me understand the dynamics within different styles of music. That's been a great asset when working and producing various songwriters and artist".

    Recording sessions started coming Peter's way in 1985. Influenced by many of the top studio drummers in NYC & LA , Peter headed to NYC to study privately with the studio drummers teaching at the legendary drum school " Drummers Collective". ( Jazz- funk drummer Mike Clark- Herbie Hancock, New Orleans great Ricky Sebastian.) Additional studies with Broadway drummer Sue Evans and Jazz drummer David Calarco helped Peter prepared another side of his craft .

    In Sept 1990 Peter moved to Orlando, Florida where he pursued musical endeavers with various bands . Then in early 1991 Peter got the call to head up to Nashville,Tn to join up with Atlantic Recording artist Robin Lee (Black Velvet) . Upon arriving he was soon out on tour with Robin on the "The Judds" farewell tour along with "Garth Brooks"...........20 years later Peter has maintained a successful drumming career recording and performing live with many of Nashville's Top Artist's , songwriters and musicians....He is married and has 2 teenage boy's.

    " In 1997-1998 I was part of the Jimi Hendrix Electric guitar competition as the house drummer for the tour.The event was hosted by The Jimi Hendrix family,Fender Guitars and GIT in Hollywood Ca. That was a true honor to be asked to be part of that tour...playing some of the greatest rock-n roll songs ever."

    Since 2003 to the present , Peter's been recording custom drum tracks and producing full production recording projects out of his Nashville ,Tn recording studio. He also is very active in working online via the internet for sessions as well.

    " Collaborating via the internet with clients has become not only feasible but very practical when transferring and collaborating on sessions.You can easily deliver a reference track and your final mixes in a matter of minutes or hours when working with songwriters or artist for all parts of the globe.”

    You can see an expansive list of people he's played for and/or produced tracks and albums for here > >