Peter Rotter, founder of Encompass Music Partners and Encompass Creative, has a long history in both music  composition and music production. Peter brings a unique industry skillset to his role as Music Producer, Contractor  and Coordinator for Encompass Music Partners and Encompass Creative. 

Peter began his professional music career in 1987 serving as a composer and music producer on several film and  television projects for many of his early composer colleagues/clients. Having worked both on the scoring stage and  in the recording booth for decades, Peter knows the specific needs of each person's role on and off the scoring  stage, whether it is the role of composer, producer, studio executive, or performer. Peter prides himself in having  excellent working relationships with the executives from all the major studios and independent film companies,  and is often called upon to act as a liaison between composer and studio relations. 

Peter graduated from California State University, Northridge in 1986 with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Clarinet  Performance. In his sophomore year of college, he began his composition studies with an emphasis in film scoring  and began writing and studying piano performance intensely. He studied film scoring composition with Robert  Drasnin and Albert Harris. 

Peter completed postgraduate courses at both USC and UCLA with a focus on film scoring studies. Upon graduating  CSUN, he scored his first feature film Code Name: Zebra in 1987. Peter has scored over a dozen feature films and  many television shows, including productions for Nickelodeon and Comedy Central.  

He has written music for over 100 national and international commercials for such companies as Apple, Disney,  AUDI, AT&T, Pepsi, FedEx, Mattel, DLP, Texas Instruments and Boeing to name just a few. 

In addition to his robust career as a composer and music contractor, Peter has contributed to several esteemed projects as a filmmaker. He has produced four short films, and served as an Executive Producer for the Academy Award-winning Documentary Short, The Last Repair Shop. The Last Repair Shop highlights the heroes behind the LAUSD school district’s music education department, and how the music programs impact the lives of LAUSD students.  Peter's short film Austin Karimloo (2023) has been selected and nominated for several film festivals, including the 2024 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Another short produced by Peter, Tackle Box (2004), won over a dozen awards including the  Audience Choice Award, which is the top honor, at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Peter was also  the Co-creator of the “Soundtrack of Our Lives” music special that raised money during the Covid Pandemic for MusiCares. The End Titles song from this special, written by Marc Shaiman, was nominated for an Emmy award. 

Peter has worked alongside the legendary film icon Clint Eastwood on his last several features (including Jersey  Boys, American Sniper, Sully, etc) as a music producer/music coordinator. 

Peter has contracted and or has performed as a music coordinator on over 1000 feature films and television  shows, including all the Pirates of the Caribbean films, the 7 Transformers movies, Black Widow, Deadpool, Black  Panther 2, as well as Frozen 1 & 2, Avatar, La La Land, Despicable Me 1, 2 and 3, Sing 1 &2, Indiana Jones and the  Crystal Skull, The Lion King and many, many others.  

In 2014, Peter was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for his work as conductor on a symphonic arranged version of  the famous Claude Bolling Suites featuring the legendary flutist Hubert Laws. 

Peter is a member of SAG, BMI, NARAS and the SCL. 

He is a founding member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, and serves on the Board of Directors for the American Youth Symphony. 

Peter is married to a professional flutist in Los Angeles and has two children and three grandchildren. 

His passions include composing music, fly fishing, playing piano, painting, snow skiing, snorkeling, biking, hiking  and spending time in his two favorite places on the earth, Lake Tahoe (where he spent much of his youth) and  Kaua’i Hawaii.