Peter’s work is currently divided between scores for contemporary ballet and film & television.
Very much in demand as a ballet composer he is now working on his 10th full length ballet, Lady Macbeth for Dutch National Ballet which opens in April 2025.
2024 has seen performances of Doña Peron in LA, Coco Chanel in Atlanta and Queensland, A Streetcar Named Desire at Sadler’s Wells and in Estonia, Frida in Amsterdam and Broken Wings in San Fransisco. Last year saw the premiere of Emma Bovary in Toronto commissioned by the National Ballet of Canada, choreographed by Helen Pickett.
His other ballet scores are The Crucible for Scottish Ballet (chr. Helen Pickett), Camino Real – based on the play by Tennessee Williams – for Atlanta Ballet (chr. Helen Pickett) & The Little Prince for BalletX (chr.Lopez Ochoa) which was recently revived for a US tour and a piece which Peter not only scored but in which he also performs much of the music live on electric violin, banjo, mouthorgan and keyboard.
A Streetcar Named Desire which has established itself as a classic of narrative ballet will be performed at Sadler’s Wells again next year as well as in New Zealand and Scottish Ballet will be touring The Crucible around Scotland.
In 2011 Streetcar opened to five-star reviews and received huge international acclaim winning the Sky Arts Dance award and an Olivier award nomination and in 2019 Peter was nominated for a National Dance Award for ‘Outstanding Creative Contribution’.
His media work is also internationally renowned, principally his music for Call the Midwife – which won the Best Television Programme Music category at the Music and Sound Awards 2016 in addition to 2 Ascap Screen Music awards in the last couple of years – as well as other high profile productions including dramas such as Cider With Rosie, Five Daughters (nominated for Best Original Score at the RTS awards) Great Expectations (BBC) and documentaries including Francesco’s Venice and Simon Schama’s The Power of Art: Caravaggio (BBC2).
His extensive theatre work includes many scores for productions by the RSC, The National Theatre and Shared Experience Theatre.
