Peter Cincotti Biography

Peter Cincotti (b. July 11, 1983 in New York City) is a jazz pianist. He attended the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, a section of The Bronx.

He started playing a toy piano at the age of three. While in high school, he gigged regularly at top clubs throughout Manhattan, studied with renowned jazz masters David Finck and James Williams, starred in the off-Broadway hit Our Sinatra and performed at the White House. At the 2000 Montreux Jazz Festival, he won an award for a hard-swinging rendition of Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia." In 2001, he was the youngest artist ever to play the storied Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel. In 2002 he reached No. 1 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Charts and instantly made history by becoming the youngest solo artist to do so.

Cincotti appeared in a small role in the 2004 Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea and contributed to the film's soundtrack.