Peter Fender

March 26, 2015

Peter is forming a new choir. It will be called ‘The Six Centuries Chamber Choir’ – and, just like it says on the tin, it will sing something from each of the centuries from the 16th up to the 21st! The singing will be interspersed with instrumental music and poetry ...

February 28, 2015

February saw two conucting courses: one Foundational course (one-day course for beginners) and a weekend course working on opera arias and accompanied recitatives. Both were well attended and hugely enjoyable! On the weekend course ...

January 22, 2015

Peter is delighted to announce the inauguration this September of the London Mahler Conducting Course. This five-day course from 7-11 September will focus on Mahler's Symphoy No.4 in G. The final two of those days will be ...

December 19, 2014

I have had the pleasure of hearing the first outings of two of my compositions in recent days. Firstly Hugh Rosenbaum organised a wind quintet to play my Christmas Quintet at the Hampstead Music Club at their Christmas concert ...

October 27, 2014

Three of Peter's compositions will be performed over the next few weeks. Firstly a perforamance of the Chiaroscuro Overture with Worcester Philharmonia Orchesatra at Pershore Abbey on 15 November ...

October 23, 2014

The Angel Orchestra will be playing all the Beethoven symphonies over a weekend early next year in Islington, London. It's a fundraising event with the money going partly to the orchestra and partly to Music Fund ...

August 28, 2014

Earlier in August Peter went to Scicli in Sicily with members of the Angel Orchestra who joined forces with local musicians for a concert. The concert was held (outdoors, as almost always in Italy in the summer) in Villa Penna, a beautiful old villa ...

July 13, 2014

As well as performing the Elgar Concerto on 27 September Alexandre Dubach follows up with a rare performance of Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin. One of the most extraordinary parts of the violin repertoire, these Caprices take the ...

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