Pete McCracken

Peter Richard McCracken is an Australian composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter, living and working in the Melbourne area. He has been a member of indie band The Plums (1992–1995), pop-rock band Deadstar (1997–2001) and country-tinged duo The Tulips (2002–2006). He married visual artist and bandmate Caroline Kennedy-McCracken. By 2005, the couple had two children.

Biography Peter Richard McCracken completed post-graduate studies in composition at the University of Melbourne in 2008, having previously studied music at La Trobe University. In 2006 he studied guitar and composition at Mannes College in New York. He has composed works for solo piano, guitar ensemble, violin and piano, and chamber ensemble. His instrumental work is post-minimalist.

In 1992 McCracken, on bass guitar, joined The Plums, an indie guitar pop four-piece group in Melbourne, with his future wife Caroline Kennedy-McCracken on lead vocals and guitar, Steve Moffat on guitar and Shamus Goble on drums.