Peter Allwood
Peter was a choral scholar in the choir of Kings College, Cambridge. His subsequent teaching career involved running music departments at three schools, Leighton Park, Oundle and Christ’s Hospital, and for ten years he was Head of Lichfield Cathedral School. He has wide experience as a conductor of operas and orchestral works, and has worked extensively with adult, youth and children’s choirs. From 2017-2023 he was Chair of the Cathedral Music Trust.
Recent choral compositions include pieces for performance in India, the Dartington Festival, Winchester Cathedral and Chichester Cathedral. Previously, he has written a number of musicals for the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT), published by Weinbergers, of which Pendragon has had performances in Hong Kong, Japan, London, Edinburgh and New York; it was featured on BBC TV and recorded at Abbey Road on the TER label.
He is now a freelance musician, conducting various choirs and orchestras, running choral workshops and performing as singer, organist and pianist. As a composer, he is currently working on revisions of a musical and of a sacred community opera, The Dream of the Rood, first commissioned by St Albans Abbey in 1993 for their 12th Centenary celebrations.
