Pete Ganbarg
Department of Music, Theater, and Dance
College of Arts and Sciences
About Pete
Pete Ganbarg has been doing major label A&R for over 35 years. He's a 2x GRAMMY庐 award-winning record producer as well as a member of the board of directors of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Pete has held A&R positions at Atlantic, Arista, Epic and SBK/EMI and is currently the president of Pure Tone Music, based in New York City.
As a music publisher, Pete operates Songs With A Pure Tone and Margetts Road Music, joint ventures currently in partnership with Warner Chappell Music. Songs published by Pure Tone include 2024's GRAMMY庐-winning Record of the Year, "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus, as well as hits by Benson Boone, Charli XCX, Beyonc茅, Lizzo, Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, OneRepublic, Lewis Capaldi, Ed Sheeran, Andy Grammer and more.
Pete is the recipient of two Grammy Awards庐 for his role as producer on the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Dear Evan Hansen and the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Jagged Little Pill. At Atlantic, among the artists and projects that Pete has overseen are twenty one pilots, Halestorm, Jason Mraz, Christina Perri, Melanie Martinez, Skillet, GAYLE, Brett Eldredge, Matchbox Twenty & Rob Thomas, Theory Of A Deadman, and Icona Pop; as well as the Original Broadway Cast Recordings of Hamilton, Mean Girls, Jagged Little Pill, Dear Evan Hansen, and the multi-platinum Billboard No. 1 soundtrack album The Greatest Showman.
Pete began his A&R career in 1989 at SBK Records. In 1997, he joined Clive Davis at Arista Records, where, as Senior Director of A&R, he conceived and A&R鈥檇 Santana鈥檚 30x platinum worldwide, nine-time GRAMMY庐-winning album, Supernatural.
Pete also produces and hosts 鈥淩ock & Roll High School,鈥 an original podcast featuring close to 50 interviews with legends of contemporary music.
Additionally, Pete was named International Music Person of The Year in 2023 by the music industry organization MUSEXPO.