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Peter Allwood - Christs Hospital
Peter Allwood read music at Cambridge while a
choral scholar at King’s College under both Sir David Willcocks and Philip Ledger.
Following a post-graduate year at Durham University, he became Director of Music first at
Leighton Park School, then at Oundle School, where he was a founder Director of the Oundle
International Organ Festival. In 1985 he moved to Christ’s Hospital as Director of
Music where he has spent much of his time working with choirs, youth and adult. His school
choirs have made many Radio and TV Broadcasts, sung in many of the great Cathedrals,
toured abroad and provided the "children’s" chorus for professional
performances of major choral works In 1995 he founded the Horsham Children’s Choir, a
group of over 80 boys and girls aged 8 – 14, and as a natural successor to this, he
founded the Horsham Youth Choir in 1997.
He was President of the Music Masters’ and Mistresses’ Association in 1992/3 and is a founder Director of the National Youth Music Theatre, for whom he has been Musical Director on many productions including Benjamin Britten’s Let’s Make an Opera for the Edinburgh International Festival. He has composed four full-length musicals for the NYMT: Bendigo Boswell, which was shown in full on BBC in 1983 and was also the subject of a television documentary: Jack Spratt V.C. which was performed at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1985: Les Petits Rats which was performed at Sadlers Wells Theatre for a three week season in January 1989; and Pendragon which was first performed in 1994 at the Edinburgh Festival. Since then, Pendragon has had further performances at The Edinburgh Festival Theatre, The Lyric Hammersmith, and in Hong Kong and Taiwan; it has been the subject of an LWT and Channel Four documentary, was performed on Broadway in October 1995, and is shortly to be released on the TER label. In 1993, he was commissioned to compose The Dream of the Rood, a sacred music drama, for the 12th Centenary of St. Albans Abbey. Peter Allwood on Guild Music
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