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Peter Link (born June 19, 1944) is an American composer, lyricist, music producer, stage director, and presently CEO/Creative Director of Watchfire Music,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=34247037 )〕 an on-line Inspirational record company and music store. During his career, which spans 40 years, he has been nominated twice for the Tony Award,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512880/ )〕 including Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor and Joseph Papp’s production of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search )〕 won the NY Critic’s Drama Desk Award for ''Salvation''〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.dramadesk.com/1969_1970dd.html )〕 out of which came his first million-selling record, "(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?", and worked, mainly as a composer in a number of entertainment mediums ranging from pop music to Broadway, television, ballet, films and Inspirational music. == Early life, education and family == Link was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the son of Lyman Link, a Canadian survivor of World War I and musician turned accountant, and Virginia Anderson Link, originally from Chicago, Illinois. He has one brother, James Charles Link, a now retired accountant also from St. Louis. He grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri attending Osage Hills Elementary School, Nipher Middle School and Principia Upper School graduating from high school in 1962. He then attended the University of Virginia on a track and soccer scholarship for one year and finished up his college education as an English major at Principia College where he graduated in 1966 and has repeatedly provided externship sponsorships to the school's students.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.principiacollege.edu/current-students/academic-career-advising/externships/2010-externship-opportunities )〕 Having conducted school choirs, directed musical productions and excelled as a drummer throughout his early childhood, he decided to concentrate on directing musicals, so he moved to New York City and studied acting for two years at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.neighborhoodplayhouse.org/alumni.html )〕 under Sanford Meisner and graduated in 1968. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Link」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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