Peter Fender

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 ...

May 14, 2015

Last weekend an international group of students parted company after two hard days working on great music for string orchestra. We spent the first day working working with the pianist Robert Keeley, who did an extraordinary job of score reading the ...

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 26, 2015

Peter is organising a week long orchestral course in the beautiful Ragusa district in southern Sicily. It will take place from 27 July - 2 August. The base for the course is Scicli, and there is a concert at the end of the week ...

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