Austin Peralta is a musician

Musician

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 and composer

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  He had two CD's released by CBS/Sony in Japan by the age of 16.

Peralta is a piano

Piano

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 player, devoted to music

Music

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 from his very young years when he started taking piano lessons at age 6, and continued his music studies with Eleanor Lindboe and Sara Banta at Pepperdine University

Pepperdine University

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. He has also studied with the noted jazz pianist Alan Pasqua

Alan Pasqua

Alan Pasqua is a jazz pianist, educator and composer who co-composed the CBS Evening News theme. He also has had an extensive career in pop and rock music, most notably as a founding member, keyboardist and songwriter of the 80s hard rock band, Giant. He studied at Indiana University and the New...

 and saxophonist Buddy Collette

Buddy Collette

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. He won the Shelly Manne New Talent Award given by the Los Angeles Jazz Society in 2003. He has performed in his home state of California

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, Germany and Japan, where he had his first tour in 2006.

At age 15, Peralta was also a featured performer at the 2006 Tokyo Jazz Festival, appearing with his own trio, as well as a live performance with major jazz stars Chick Corea

Chick Corea

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, Hank Jones

Hank Jones

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, Sadao Watanabe

Sadao Watanabe (musician)

is an influential Japanese jazz musician who plays the alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone and flute. He is known for his Bossa Nova recordings, although his work encompasses a large range of styles with collaborations from musicians all over the world. Sadao first began learning music at the age...

, John Patitucci

John Patitucci

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, Omar Hakim

Omar Hakim

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, and the young Japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara. At age 16 Peralta appeared at the internationally-known Java Jazz Festival (2007).

Peralta's first CD, "Maiden Voyage", featured bassist Ron Carter

Ron Carter

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, and his second release "Mantra" included bassist Buster Williams

Buster Williams

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.

Peralta is the son of the Z-Boy

Z-Boys

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 skateboard

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er and film director Stacy Peralta

Stacy Peralta

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. he contributed to the original soundtrack

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 of his father's documentary film

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 "Riding Giants

Riding Giants

Riding Giants is a 2004 documentary film directed and narrated by Stacy Peralta, a famous skater/surfer who helped define modern skateboarding. The movie traces the origins of surfing and specifically focuses on the art of big wave riding...

" with a piano solo.

Maiden Voyage (March 2006)

Personnel:

Austin Peralta - piano

Ron Carter - bass

Billy Kilson - drums

Track listing:

1. Passion Dance
2. Shadow Of Your Smile
3. Maiden Voyage
4. Green, Dolphin Street
5. Spain
6. N.Q.E. (Naguib Qormah Effendi)
7. Someday My Prince Will Come
8. Balaqeeti
9. Naima

Mantra (December 2006)

Personnel:

Marcus Strickland - tenor/soprano saxes

Steve Nelson - vibes

Austin Peralta - piano

Buster Williams - bass

Ronald Bruner, Jr. - drums

Track Listing:

1. Mantra
2. Black Narcissus
3. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
4. Astral Tides
5. Butterfly
6. Ablaze
7. All the Things You Are
8. Afro Blue
9. D.Redman

Endless Planets (February 2011)

Personnel:

Austin Peralta - piano
Zane Musa - alto sax
Ben Wendel - tenor and soprano saxes
Hamilton Price - bass
Zach Harmon - drums

Track Listing:

1. Introduction: The Lotus Flower (2:16)
2. Capricornus (8:15)
3. The Underwater Mountain Odyssey (6:38)
4. Ode To Love (6:41)
5. Interlude (1:17)
6. Algiers (13:37)
7. Epilogue: Renaissance Bubbles (1:48)

External links

• Java Jazz Festival 2007 profile
• Official MySpace page