Born in 1968, Peter Pejtsik is a multi-talented artist equally at home in classical, contemporary, and pop genres, and a spectacular performer on bass, cello, and fiddle.
He started out as a classical cellist, but it was with the progressive and syphonic rock group After Crying that he soon began gaining international recognition. The now 25-year-old band that he co-founded in 1986, has always been an ideal field for Pejtsik to perfect his composing and arranging skills in classical, rock, pop, and electro. Because of the experience he gained through these years, he gradually found himself in large-scale music projects for stage and for film, for well known clients in Hungary, and abroad.
His recent involvements in international projects include composing, arranging, or conducting/recording music for BBC's Robin Hood series, Eurodisney, TV series (like Law and Order), Nine Miles Down, Butterfly Effect: Revelation, National Geographic's IMAX 3D Sea Monsters movie (with Peter Gabriel and Real World staff) and numerous pop and world music albums at Real World records and different other publishers.
Peter wrote music for the spectacular light-show creation for the 600-years anniversary of Jeanne d’Arc in Orléans, France, 2012. The film score he co-wrote with other members of After Crying for "Abandoned", has won the prize 'Special Prix Europe' at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002, and was nominated for Oscar.