MsMF Board & Team

Peter Whitham

President / Chairman of the Board

Often referred to as a “savant” since birth, Peter Whitham is of English decent. Born in 1956 on the tiny island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea, which is only eight by sixteen miles in length with one never being more than four miles from the ocean.

“My childhood was one of discovery,” says Peter. “My grandmother was a concert pianist for Pinewood Studios in the silent movie days. Mother was the seamstress for the Queen of England and a model for Princess Margaret and my father worked for Boeing by day and at night he was an inventor. As a child I remember crawling up under the piano as my grandmother played all day and just listen and listen to the musical notes, which taught me the sound of music. As I got older and could stand and sit at the piano I learned the fingering of the keys. With little music lessons behind me I began working playing the piano at age 10, that was in 1966 when we moved to America.”

Peter Whitham’s family made Long Island their home and from there he became a concert pianist. For over 20 years he traveled the USA and World on tour for the finest piano manufacturers, both playing and composing. Peter also taught himself to play many other instruments, but writing and composing and the piano became his life. In 1985, while on tour promoting himself, Peter made his first visit to the South.

He liked the fact that Mississippi was located in the middle of the country, halfway to either coast. But it was the extraordinary amount of diversity in music, abundance of talent, and overwhelming amount of struggling musicians that drew him here. The learned scholar or wise man Peter exceptionally is, he was shown how programs were developed and operated as they were coming about. Having invested over a million dollars in personal funds and a countless number of hours to date, qtrnote.com became one of the first pay-per-download music distributors in the world in 1998.