Biography
Peter Bastian
Real name: Peter Bastian Jacobsen
Effective period / Period of releases: 1988 - 2016
Danish multi-instrumentalist, music educator, lecturer, and author, born August 25th, 1943, Copenhagen, Denmark - died March 27th, 2017. Both of his parents were opera singers. From 1962 to 1971, he studied theoretical physics at Copenhagen University and at the same time trained as a classical bassoonist. In the 1970's, he was a member of Bazaar (6), which began playing mostly music inspired by Balkan tradition; later on they played more classically oriented music. He was a popular lecturer on music perception and theory.