Peter Fender

November 06, 2015

Christmas is the time for giving they say ... and so I'm giving away two MP3 tracks from my album Speechless. One is appropriately based on a biblical text about the Christmas story ('All For Love'). The other is an upbeat overture ('Chiaroscuro Overture') ...

October 30, 2015

On 2 and 3 December there will be auditions for the solo parts in Rameau's great opera 'Hippolyte et Aricie'. This is in advance of performances of the opera in London on 18-19 June 2016. This was Rameau's first opera, premièred in 1733 ...

October 28, 2015

The phone app for my new piece 'Blow, blow' has been finished and is now available on iTunes and Google Play. I'm very excited! Very many thanks to the developers Joe Fender and Luke Fanning! Make sure you're in St James's Piccadilly, London on 27 Nov ...

October 27, 2015

Five students weaved their ways back to Scotland, Northern Ireland, Switzerland, America and France on Sunday night after an intense and tiring yet very satisfying weekend working on music by Haydn and Mozart ...

October 09, 2015

10 students descended on Lewisham in SE London recently for a day learning the basics of conducting (the course is called Foundation 1). They came from Ireland, Denmark, Bristol, Newmarket, and various bits of London. As well as hailing from ...

August 23, 2015

During the next Six Centuries Chamber Choir on Fri 27 Nov you will be encouraged to leave your phone switched on and even to activate an app during the performance! If you have a smartphone with you then ...

July 07, 2015

Peter will conduct another concert in Sicily this summer - this time in the beautiful city of Modica, close to Ragusa. The setting will be the stunningly beautiful atrium of the Comune (the town hall) ...

Gustav Mahler
June 23, 2015

On 23rd January next year Peter will conduct Philharmonia Britannica in a performance of Mahler's Symphony no.10. This was Mahler's final sympyhony. He wrote it in the summer of 1910 but by his death in May 1911 although Mahler ...

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