He was drummer/percussionist for the world premiere Productions of "Mystic Pizza", "The Nutty Professor", and "Mr Holland's Opus" as well as the regional premiere of "The Cher Show" at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine and he can also be heard on 2019's "Carols for a Cure, vol. 21" with the cast of Broadway's "Hamilton".
Peter recently celebrated 20 years as a member of the Exit 9 Percussion Group with nearly 500 performances, including a November 2021 tour in Ecuador as cultural envoy for the US State department.
Saleh’s published music is performed widely and his “A Percussionist’s Handbook” (Bachovich) has been called a "survival guide for today's percussionist" (Pablo Rieppi).
As a musician for dance, Saleh has presented collaborative work at the Aliey Citigroup Theater, The Joffrey School, and NJPAC. Since 2011, Peter has been an accompanist at The Juilliard School, and spent 5 years grooving with the Ailey Samba class percussion section.
Saleh founded and directed the Rutgers Youth Percussion Ensemble for 15 seasons, which received wide praise for its performances at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival, PAS/NYU Weekend of Percussion, and The Players Theater, and he continues to enthusiastically teach the next generation of drummers and percussionists.
Peter endorses Pearl/Adams Instruments and Sabian Cymbals and is the inventor of the patented “Switchboard” percussion table.
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Clayton Craddock hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and has held the drum chair in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill and Ain’t Too Proud. He has been a sub drummer on Motown, The Color Purple, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Spongebob Squarepants-The Musical, Evita, Cats, Avenue Q, and The Big Apple Circus. The next project he’s working on is The Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical.
Clayton has performed on various TV shows, including Good Morning America, The Colbert Report, The View, The Jimmy Fallon Show, The CBS Early Show, the Today Show, and the 2010 and 2019 TONY Awards at Radio City. He’s shared the stage with legends such as The Stylistics, Denise Williams, Chuck Berry, and Ben E. King and was in the Netflix DWYCK episode of Luke Cage with the Delfonics and the HBO version of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.
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