Peter Fender

August 03, 2021

Begun in response to the shutdown of musical activity in March 2020 Peter's online sessions have proved very popular, so they will continue on until at least the end of 2021 ...

May 13, 2021

To publicise and complement Peter's 'Masterworks Unwrapped' series of talks there is now a series of video shorts looking into a piece of music and/or a composer in just 5 or 6 minutes!

May 06, 2021

New in-person conducting courses are being planned for the Autumn (21 months after the last one!) - one for beginners on 7 November; the other is a more advanced course on conducting Stravinsky and Puccini, with a full professional orchestra ...

April 29, 2021

Masterworks Unwrapped, to use an F1 analogy, has gone to a one-stop strategy! In other words, there will be one session per month, on the first Tuesday of each month (nice and easy to remember!). Sessions coming up are on the music of Fanny Mendelssohn ...

January 19, 2021

Peter's online music sessions continue into 2021! Both the general music appreciation series 'Masterworks Unwrapped' and a series for conductors. Here are a couple of comments from participants: "You are a natural teacher with a real talent to engage and enthuse ...

October 27, 2020

Rarely has an American president made more 'waves' than Donald Trump, and rarely has there been an election like the one coming up next Tuesday, 3 November ...

October 13, 2020

The musical world in London is making an attempt to get itself going again. Peter had two strings-only rehearsals during the Summer, but now has had a couple of larger scale rehearsals with one orchestra, and others are ...

May 17, 2020

Peter is now running two types of online music courses. Masterworks Unwrapped - music appreciation classes, delving into a wide range of important compositions. And for the London Conducting School - the study of how to conduct important scores plus ...

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