Peter Bufano

Peter Bufano is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He scores films and circuses.

His quirky instrumentals can be heard on Network and Cable TV around the globe. Shows such as America's Got Talent and The Today Show have featured his work. 

Bufano is the founder of Cirkestra, a circus pit-band for which he composed and produced seven releases. The troupe toured the United States performing hundreds of shows in and out of the big top including performances at The Kennedy Center, The Seattle Art Museum, and The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. 

He teaches Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston where he was the recipient of the 2018-2019 Newbury Comics Faculty Fellowship. He created The Circus Music Workshop. 

Peter is a graduate of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College, Berklee College of Music, and The ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop at NYU.

Film Credits:

“Circus Town”  (2023)

"[fat] life" (2022) 

“Turn Back Night” (2021)

“Old Guy” (2020)

“Circus Kid” (2016)

“Expiration Date” (2013)

“Circus Dreams” (2011)

Circus Credits:

Parallel Exit ("The Artist Will Be With You In A Moment" and "Sunset Circus")

Hideaway Circus “Stars Above”

The Big Apple Circus (2019 Production, "40th Anniversary" and "Grand Tour")

The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus ("Flatbed Follies", "Quarantine Livestream", "Cardboard and Duct Tape Spectacular", "My Last Circus", and "From The Gutter To The Glitter")

“It Takes Guts”

Circus Smirkus ("Alice", "Pinocchio", "Zoot Suit Caper", "Midnight at the Museum",  "Vaudeville", “Carnival”, and “Imaginarium”) 

Spiegelworld ("Nocturne" NYC, Edinburgh, and Los Angeles Productions)

“Mr. Swindles Traveling Peculiarium”