Peter Nitsch studied double bass and bass guitar at the Nuremberg University of Music, at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) and with a full scholarship at the renowned Manhattan School of Music in New York. With two bachelor degrees and one master's degree in his pocket, after a two-year stay in New York, having had lessons with greats like Dave Liebman, Phil Markowitz and Matt Garrison, he was drawn to the next big metropolis, São Paulo (Brazil). There he was living for another five years in order to acquire, after classical music, jazz, Indian music, the subtleties of Brazilian music.

In the course of his twenty-year career, Peter Nitsch has shared the stage with fantastic musicians such as Michael Wollny, Bob Mintzer, Candy Dulfer, Ellen ten Damme, Pete Philly, Rudi Mahall, Felix Lehrmann, Benjamin Herman, Ruud Breuls, Peter Beets, Jesse van Ruller, Lee Konitz, Deborah Brown, Edwin Rutten, Jeroen van der Boom, ClaronMcFadden, Mathilde Santing, Andy Haderer, Bert Joris, Willeke Alberti, John Ruocco, Cor Bakker, Erik van Lier, Frank Möbus, Jürgen Neudert, Johannes Enders, Tobias Weidinger, Paul Höchstädter, Stephan Zimmermann, Jörg Engels, Mark Wayend, Felix Fromm, Matthias Schriefl, Raphael Haeger, Dirk Wucherpfennig, David Cooper, Peter Gall, Kenny Martin, Adriana Calcanhotto.

In addition to CD recordings, he was involved in various television productions in the Netherlands, Germany and Brazil, and took part in concert tours in Europe, Asia and North and South America.

Peter Nitsch lives in Berlin since 2017.