With a career spanning 25 years as a choral and orchestral conductor, Peter’s vast repertoire ranges from medieval to contemporary, with a specialist interest in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. An international award-winning conductor (First Prize at the Mariele Ventre International Choral Conducting Competition (2003), he has directed European and Australasian amateur and professional ensembles with critical acclaim.

In the UK Peter’s current conducting posts comprise Aylesbury Choral Society, Collegium Singers, Harmonia Sacra, Cappella Fede and Wells Tallis Voices, with past permanent or guest directorships having included Bristol Bach Choir, City of Oxford Choir, Cathedral Singers of Christ Church, Oxford, Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus, Yeovil Chamber Choir, St Hugh Singers, Bristol Philharmonic Orchestra, Frideswide Ensemble, Canzona, and Chameleon Arts Orchestra. In recent years he has also conducted Coro Euridice (Bologna), the Coro di Teatro Comunale (Bologna), City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, The Song Company (Sydney), Ensemble Eszterhaza (Melbourne), and New Holland Baroque (Adelaide). Peter has also led choral workshops with Harpenden Choral Society, Daventry Choral Society and Cantemus Chamber Choir (Wales), amongst many others, and with the majority of UK Early Music Fora.

Peter is Chairman of the South West Early Music Forum and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at Swansea University. He is a regular contributor to Early Music, and has written for other scholarly journals such as Eighteenth-Century Music, Music & Letters and Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu. Peter’s recently rediscovered keyboard manuscript of music attributed to the Jesuit composer Antoine Selosse (1621-87) has been recorded on the Deux Elles CD label by Terence Charlston.