Biography
Originally from the UK, Pete Duffy is the founder of The Dreams Loft and has resided in Ireland since 2000.
He first started learning piano at the age of 7 and progressed quickly playing a range of styles from Classical to Jazz. His knowledge of these styles and theory was furthered when he sat and passed A-Level music, before heading to Perth College of music (Scotland) where he attained a Higher National Diploma in Popular Music Performance. This course enabled him to study various styles in depth, such as Mowtown, Punk, Heavy Rock, Country.
At the age of 21, he moved to Dublin and played at various bars showcasing his original material, before establishing himself in Galway where he started The Dreams Loft.
Pete has attended 3 Mix With The Masters Seminars at the state of the art ‘La Fabrique’ studios in Remy de Provence, France so far. The first was on Songwriting and production with Greg Wells who has crafted songs and produced for Adele, Katy Perry, One Republic, 21 Pilots, Bejoncé and many more. On this occasion, Greg worked closely with 2 outstanding Artists from LA - Natalie Dunn and Jay Harte to write a song for Jay's forthcoming album. The song was written and produced in entirety over 3 days and then Andrew Scheps (Metallica, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Adele, Rodrigo Y Gabriela) arrived to mix the production. Pete then decided to stay for a 2nd week to study under Andrew Scheps and learned about his approach to mixing.
Pete went back to study under Greg Wells in March of 2018, where Greg was joined by Keala Settle and he talked extensively about how he mixed and produced the soundtrack to ‘The Greatest Showman’, which at time had already made no.1 in 77 countries worldwide.
