Peter was born in Hastings and studied comparative religions at King’s College, London. He went on to train vocally with Michael Maurel and was drawn to Italy in his early twenties, somehow finding himself on stage with Pavarotti at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino! His professional debut in a major role was as Mozart’s Figaro for London Opera Players, to which he quickly added Malatesta (Don Pasquale) at Holland Park, Dandini (La Cenerentola), Onegin and a number of other, largely lyric, baritone roles. Over the following decades he has steadily added to his list of around ninety rôles, singing for companies such as The Opera Project, Nationale Reisopera, Festival dei Due Mondi, Opéra Nationale de Bordeaux, Kentish Opera, Opera à la Carte, the D’Oyly Carte and many others.

He regularly performs the popular oratorio canon and other sacred works and has an extraordinarily wide and eclectic concert repertoire, including much corporate a cappella work and Barbershop.

2011 saw the start of an extremely successful association with Saga Holidays. Since then, as a Music Host, Peter has written and presented hundreds of illustrated talks & recitals whilst hosting, for Saga, several classically-themed river cruises ranging from Schubert and Verdi to Gilbert and Sullivan; a decade of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra seasons; the Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias; the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival holidays; eight seasons of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival along with many trips to Vienna, Cologne & Budapest for similar projects.