Peter Duchin

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Peter Oelrichs Duchin (born July 28, 1937) is an American pianist and band leader.

Early life and education

Eddy Duchin, the son of pianist and band leader Eddy Duchin, was born in New York City. Marjorie Oelrichs, a Newport, Rhode Island, and New York City socialite who died unexpectedly when he was just five days old, was his mother. Since Eddy Duchin's father was Jewish, she was barred from the New York Social Register for marrying him; her reaction was apparently "Who cares?" It's just a phone book." He was raised by close family friends, statesman W. Averell Harriman, and his wife, Marie Norton Harriman after the deaths of both of his parents.

Duchin attended Eaglebrook School (where he studied piano with Carrie Barbour Swift) and New England's Hotchkiss School prep schools. Before returning home and graduating from Yale University, he spent time in Paris, France, and studied at the Sorbonne.

Personal life

He married Cheray Zauderer, a divorced Manhattan socialite with whom he had three children, in 1964. Her father gave them a Thoroughbred yearling named Mr. as a wedding gift. Correct. The colt was one of only four racers to win both the Santa Anita Handicap and the Woodward Stakes on the East Coast.

In 1985, Duchin married Brooke Hayward, with whom he had been living since 1981. In Litchfield County, Connecticut, the couple owned a loft in New York City and a house in Washington, Connecticut. He wrote Ghost of a Chance in 1996, a little over a hundred years ago. Hayward and Duchin announced their separation in 2008 and eventually divorced.

Over the 2012 Memorial Day weekend in East Hampton, Duchin married Virginia Coleman.

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Career

Duchin formed his first professional band, which played the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, in 1962 thanks in part to his family name and the networking it had made possible. The band's style and genres have been described as "a musical approach that incorporates big bands, swing and Broadway songs (and nowadays, old-fashioned rock 'n' roll)."

Duchin's music was much heard on middle of the road radio in the late 1960s and early 1970s from albums and singles released on the Decca, Bell and Capitol labels. His single "Star Dust" reached No. 143 in the Cashbox survey, 1964.

From 1985 to 1989, Duchin had a professional partnership with Jimmy Maxwell, leader of the traditional society jazz band in New Orleans.

By 2009, Duchin's band had played at an estimated 6,000 performances.

Duchin is an honorary member and former Vice-Chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts. He has served on the boards of American Ballet Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Spoleto Festival USA, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the board of Trustees for the Glimmerglass Opera of Cooperstown, New York, the Advisory Council for the American Russian Youth Orchestra, the National Jazz Service Organization, the World Policy Institute, and the Citizens Committee For New York City.

He was also a board member for The Center for Arts Education.

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