Peter Wiegold

In 2007 Peter wrote a highly acclaimed large-scale work for the BBC Proms entitled, ‘He is armoured without’ for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, musicians from Uzbekistan, the Coldstream Guards, 80 other brass players and solo trumpet and trombone (Torbjorn Hultmark and David Purser) in a staged performance. This was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society large-scale composition prize.

In January 2009 Bow-Wave opened the National Youth Orchestra’s Winter Tour, a new piece that was staged, played from memory, and included improvisation, the first time the NYO had presented such a piece in its main series. In July 2009 his opera ‘The End of the Line’ was premiered at Manchester Piccadilly Railway station by 150 performers from the Royal Northern College of Music.

Other recent works include To the shades of the departed, a saxophone concerto for Tim Garland and the Northern Sinfonia, for the Sage International Jazz Festival 2008, Earth and Stars for ensemble xx.jahrhundert, Vienna, (2006) celebrating 250 years since Mozart's birth, and The Great Wheel, London Sinfonietta and musicians from Uzbekistan, Glasgow/ London 2003,

He has been a regular conductor of the Composers' Ensemble (concerts in Dartington, London, Brighton, Bath, Oxford, Darmstadt, Salzburg, Holland and Macedonia) and has also conducted bcmg, the London Sinfonietta, Endymion Ensemble, Northern Sinfonia, Southbank Sinfonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Joensuu Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia and Orchestra Camarata Labacensis, Slovenia. In May 2007 he opened the Cologne Triennial Festival with a performance of Berio’s ‘Accordo’ for 4 wind orchestras. He was delighted, in 2008, to be appointed ‘Artist-in-Association’ with bcmg.

This spring he is directing a David Lang Festival for the Northern Sinfonia.

His own ensemble notes inégales includes leading players equally committed to improvisation as playing scored music. In September 09 they presented a series of concerts at the Kings Place Festival in partnership with Sound and Music and a CD of Wiegold’s music for NMC Recordings will be released in Spring 2010.

Other projects include ‘...brew  The Miles Davis Project’ at the ICA in 2008 where leading composers where invited to send ‘postcards from Miles Davis’ as a basis for improvisation.