Peter Allwood

Peter Allwood read music at King's College, Cambridge, singing as a choral scholar under the direction of Sir David Willcocks and Sir Philip Ledger. After a year’s study in Durham, where he was conductor of the University Chamber Choir, he became Director of Music first at Leighton Park School (Reading), then Oundle School (Northamptonshire) and from 1985 at Christ’s Hospital (Horsham), conducting many operas and orchestral concerts with both adult and children’s choirs, and recording a number of CDs on the Guild and Carlton labels. Other notable positions include Headmaster of Lichfield Cathedral School (2001–2011), Chair of the Board of Trustees of Cathedral Music Trust (2017–2023) and a director of the National Youth Music Theatre (1978–2000). His compositions for the NYMT include Bendigo Boswell (BBC TV 1983), Jack Spratt VC (Edinburgh Fringe First 1985), The Little Rats (Sadler’s Wells 1989), Aurelius (Edinburgh 1997) and Pendragon (1995, Far East, London, Edinburgh, Broadway, BBC TV, recorded on the TER Label).