Peter studied Modern Languages at Cambridge and piano at the RAM. He has a repertoire of well over 120 operas, of which he has conducted around 70, in Germany, where he spent six years as Head of Music and Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, for UK companies including WNO, Opera North, ETO and Opera Holland Park and in Australia, Singapore, Hungary and the Czech Republic. As symphonic conductor he has worked with the Wiener Symphoniker, Nürnberger Philharmoniker and the Orchestra dell’ Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and numerous UK orchestras. He is co-founder, and was for many years Artistic Director, of the Internationales Kammermusikfestival Nürnberg.
An experienced and passionate Wagnerian, he has worked on numerous full Ring cycles, as assistant at Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Strasbourg, Longborough, and with the LPO and ROH. During the last two years he returned to Bayreuth as assistant on the new Ring, and concluded a four-year project conducting Jonathan Dove’s innovative reduction of the Ring for the Grimeborn Festival. As Music Director for the London Opera Company he recently conducted Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre, and will conduct Siegfried for them later this year. He is the recently appointed Principal Conductor of the Lambeth Orchestra, and a regular coach at the RCM and on the Jette Parker Artists Programme at ROH.