A chronological tour of the guitarist's repertoire from the Renaissance to the Contemporary.  The program features music by J.S. Bach, Gaspar Sanz, Ferdinando Carulli, Bartolome Calatuyud, Django Reinhardt, Thelonious Monk, Vernon Duke, Luiz Bonfa and others. Many different styles of music are included, such as Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, flamenco, jazz, blues and Brazilian music, as well as several original compositions.

Peter Griggs began his musical studies at the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division on French Horn, with Louis Ricci of the NY Philharmonic. He went on to study composition with Elliot Schwartz and improvisation with Marion Brown at Bowdoin College, world music at Wesleyan University, tabla with Pandit Sharda Sahai, and composition with Wilfred Mellers at York University (UK). After spending a year traveling in India, Indonesia and Japan studying traditional music, Griggs returned to New York and worked as a free-lance composer, guitarist and percussionist. He performed in a trio with flutist Iris Brooks and percussionist Glen Velez and was a member of Gamelan Son Of Lion (new music percussion ensemble).  He also worked as sound designer on more than 50 off-Broadway plays and composed music for modern dance, documentary film and other multi-media projects. Griggs has been commissioned by the National Endowment For The Arts, Meet The Composer, and the Mary Flagler Cary Trust. He has collaborated with choreographers including Nacho Duato, Sally Gross and Linda Diamond and theater groups including Pan-Asian Rep., Kings County Shakespeare Company and the Mint Theatre. From 2002-2012, Griggs was based in Dusseldorf Germany and performed extensively through northern Europe. He currently resides in Cold Spring, New York, and continues to perform throughout the USA and abroad.