Peter Flint was born in Delaware in a musical family. His mother is a Baroque harpsichordist and artistic director of Brandywine Baroque and his grandmother was a community pianist and organist. He now resides in New York City, composing music for all sizes and shapes of ensembles. He received a B.A./B.Mus. in History and Electronic Music from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music where he studied with Conrad Cummings, and his M.Mus. from New England Conservatory where he studied with Michael Gandolfi, Lee Hyla, and Scott Wheeler.
Recent works include MicroConcerto:Spontaneous Combustions for piano quintet ; Fantastic Music for a Fabulous Time for mixed chamber ensemble; Dance Dance Dance, a string quartet which won the New England Conservatory Honors Quartet Composition Prize and was premiered in March 2001 by the Delaware Symphony String Quartet; as well as a short orchestra piece, entitled Eroding the Helix, which was premiered by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble in New York in February 2003 and reviewed by Kyle Gann of the Village Voice as jazzy and well-orchestrated.
In the past he has written music for numerous theatrical productions in New York City and the mid-Atlantic region. Notable among them are Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Macbeth, Sylvia, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Baltimore Waltz, The Skin of our Teeth, Molly Sweeny, The Winters Tale, Taking Steps, and One Flea Spare at such venues as the 78th Street Theater Lab, the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater, the Juilliard School Drama Division, and the Delaware and Philadelphia Theatre Companies. In addition he has worked with Hyperspace Cowgirls, a now-defunct multimedia company creating software edutainment for children. Notable projects with them included Magic Wardrobe and Paint N’Play Pony which were published by IBM/Crayola and received numerous accolades.
In 2002, he founded Avian Music with the goal of providing opportunities for emerging composers side by side with more established ones in a series of themed concerts in New York City and beyond. Avian Music is dedicated to building bridges between audiences, performers, and various musical styles and media. Their debut performance, Birds of a Feather, presented a wide variety of music inspired by birds and was favorable reviewed in the New York Times by Paul Griffiths, who described it as "beautifully and sensitively played".
Upcoming projects include performances in March and May, 2007; the release of Goooooooooal!!! on the newly formed Avian Records label; as well as an opera based on the abolitionist John Brown, that will hopefully be workshopped in 2008.