Pete Lanctot is a songwriter, composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. He has toured and or recorded with Durand Jones and the Indications, Iris Dement, John Cale, The Hot Sardines, Holly Miranda, Tony Conrad, and Anthony Coleman, has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Last Call with Carson Daly, and has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Music Hall of Williamsburg, MoMA, the American Folk Art Museum, Littlefield, Joe’s Pub, The Ace Hotel, and Issue Project Room. Pete is the on-call strings player and arranger for the television and film scoring house Hyperballad Music and composed and recorded the score for the 2018 Derek Shane Garcia film The Experience which won the award for best director at the Chelsea Film Festival.