After beginning as a concert musician, Pete began producing music to commission in the mid 1990s, including: Songs from a Blazing City for Warwick Arts Festival (1996) Sospira for Cheltenham International Festival (1998). He also co-scored The Wild Ones, a 26 part series for HIT television, which has been shown worldwide.

In 1997 he began working in multi-media, collaborative theatre with in the darkness of light at the Cochrane theatre off London’s West End and since then has collaborated on numerous theatre based projects, including Machine for Living (Corn Exchange, Brighton, Carol Brown, 2000) Discoveries Uncovered (Juilliard Academy, New York, 2002) Another Place (Surrey Dance, Suna Imre, 2003) and a second Juilliard commission for the centenary of the academy Senbazuru which was performed at Lincoln Centre, New York with the Juilliard orchestra and opera singers, conducted by Andrea Quinn with choreography by Jessica Lang in 2006.

Pete’s concert commissions, include If I had known I was Dreaming, An African Elegy and Flap, which were performed at the South Bank Centre (Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall) and May Peace Prevail on Earth, which was performed at the Barbican by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Matthew Sharp soloist with London voices and Burntwood Girl’s choir in London in December 2003. Insomnia Poems was performed simultaneously live (via internet) at Jazz at Lincoln Centre and the 606 Club, London in 2005.

He is currently developing an opera based on the Moscow theatre siege of 2003, with painter John Keane, playwright Bryony Lavery and director, Phyllida Lloyd, for English National Opera for premiere in April 2009.

Music CV

Pete has written music for a number of TV Commercials for Coca Cola, Travelers Insurance, Mercedes, Ford, Philips and Siemens.

Pete has released a number of albums. A solo album, Stories from the City at Night, is released by Thirsty Ear Records, New York in 2007.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ‘May Peace Prevail on Earth”
Opera North ‘Cremenville’
English National Opera ’57 Hours in the house of culture’
Brighton Festival/UK tour ‘Johnny’s Midnight Goggles”
Juilliard Academy, New York ‘Senbazuru’ (orchestra/singers)
Juilliard Academy, New York ‘Chelsea-Chelsea’ (simultaneously live, New York and London)
Juilliard Academy, New York ‘Rain at Night’
Brighton Festival ‘Machine for Living’
TV Commercials Mercedes, Ford, Travelers, Philips, Seimens, Kenco, Kelloggs.
Album ‘Stories from the city at night’ (Thirsty Ear)

SharpWire UK/US tour ‘Adam’s Apple’
Japan 2001 Festival, South Bank ‘If I had known I was dreaming…..’
Park Lane Series, South Bank ‘An African Elegy’
Queen Elisabeth Hall ‘Flap’
Bath International Festival ‘Two Bridges’
Cheltenham International Festival ‘Sospira’