Pietro Amato
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Pietro Amato is a Montreal French horn player. He plays with three bands: Torngat, Bell Orchestre, and The Luyas. Amato is also a touring member of Arcade Fire. In 2006, he performed along with Bell Orchestre at the Montreal Jazz Festival.
Amato is a founding member of Torngat, his longest standing musical project. In July of 2006 a stand-in temporarily replaced Amato for Bell Orchestre's European tour while he devoted his time to Torngat's next album, due out in the spring of 2007.
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[edit] 2006 Touring
- March with Bell Orchestre in Europe (promoting Recording a Tape in the Colour of the Light)
- April with Torngat in Eastern Canada (promoting La Rouge)
- May with Bell Orchestre in the U.S. (promoting Recording a Tape in the Colour of the Light)
[edit] Discography
- Torngat (2002)
- Live at The Bread Factory (2004)
- La Rouge (2005)
- Funeral (2004)
- Return to the Sea (2006)
[edit] Trivia
- Amato graduated with a Fine Arts degree from Concordia University.
- In 2005, Amato performed "Rebellion (Lies)" with Arcade Fire on The Late Show with David Letterman.
- Amato and Sam Roberts occasionally play ice hockey together.
- He has over 30 cousins, five of which are members of The Beds.
- Nominated for a 2007 Juno Award for his work in Bell Orchestre's Recording a Tape in the Colour of the Light
