[1] He recorded with Jeff Hamilton and Curtis Fuller and in 2001 he released his New York Trio, which was the start of his international career.

[1] His mother is a music teacher and his father a jazz-playing gynaecologist with a love of Oscar Peterson and Art Blakey.

This musical family, which includes two elder brothers, Marius and Alexander, moved in 1972 to Groenlo,[1] where Peter received his first piano lessons at the age of six.

A few songs are recorded with a Dutch line up: Martijn van Iterson (guitar) and Ruud Jacobs (bass).

He recorded this album with Joe Cohn (guitar), Reuben Rogers (double bass) and Greg Hutchinson (drums).

A duet for two grand pianos with Chick Corea (with whom he shares a birthday) in the large auditorium of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw resulted in a performance in trio setting there on 16 April 2005.

After touring extensively abroad throughout 2008 Beets' trio returned to the Dutch stage in 2009 with a tribute to Oscar Peterson.