The Autumn weekend conducting course has just completed in London. Students from Argentina, Norway, Portugal, France, and Italy worked hard at music by Bach, Sibelius, and Stravinsky. We firstly spent a long day working ...
Peter Fender
Peter took part in the second Black Sea Conducting Competition in Constanta, Romania, in September this year. It was run by Thalassa Music. There was in international group of partcipants - from the UK, Italy, Japan, Canada, USA, Argentina, Portugal ...
Peter's compositions are now being heard around the world through internet radio stations, supplied by the company Radio Airplay. Listeners so far have come from Trinidad & Tobago / USA / Phillipines ...
On Saturday, at a concert in London, there will be a first complete performance of Peter's two unaccompanied pieces for choir. They are based on poems by Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
New dates for Peter's conducting courses have been set for the Autumn. There are workshops for people of all stages and interests (including beginners and also non-musicians) ...
For Peter's next conducting course on 19 May there will be music by Puccini and Beethoven. He will be joined by fantastic soprano Henrietta Brewley to work on arias from Tosca by Puccini ...
I need a picture of Puccini for my study wall. On that same wall there is a picture of Mahler. Whilst preparing various Mahler symphonies (especially no.3) I would occasionally wag my finger at Mahler ...
Another group of happy but weary conductors made their way from Abacus Arts in South London on Sunday 17th February ... Shostakovich and Haydn still very much in everyone's heads ...