About

For many years Peter’s work has been divided between scores for contemporary ballet and film & television.

Very much in demand as a ballet composer he has just completed his 11th full length ballet, Gentleman Jack for Northern Ballet choreographed by Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa which opened to huge critical acclaim in March 2026.

2025 saw the premiere of Lady Macbeth for Dutch National Ballet choreographed by Helen Pickett with it's score described as 'a masterful work' and 'an absolute cracker of brooding energy'.

As well as new commissions many of his ballet scores are now performed around the world as exclusive licences with the commissioning companies end. Frida and it's shorter version Broken Wings have been performed by at least 10 companies in the past couple of years.

Emma Bovary choreographed by Helen Pickett has just been revived by the National Ballet of Canada after a hugely acclaimed first run in 2023.

A Streetcar Named Desire and The Crucible have been a regularly recurring part of Scottish Ballet's repertoire since they were commissioned and Streetcar has also been produced in Estonia, Nashville and Orlando. Streetcar opened to five-star reviews in 2011 and received huge international acclaim winning the Sky Arts Dance award and an Olivier award nomination. In 2019 Peter was nominated for a National Dance Award for 'Outstanding Creative Contribution' for his score for The Crucible.

Peter's other ballets include Doña Peron, Coco Chanel:the life of a fashion icon (chr. Lopez Ochoa), Camino Real (chr. Pickett) - based on the play by Tennessee Williams - and The Little Prince (chr. Lopez Ochoa) a piece which Peter not only scored but in which he also performs much of the music live on electric violin, banjo, mouthorgan and keyboard. He is due to be back in Philadelphia to perform it with BalletX this Juiy!

His media work is also internationally renowned, principally his music for the first 4 series of Call the Midwife – which won the Best Television Programme Music category at the Music and Sound Awards 2016 in addition to 2 Ascap Screen Music awards – as well as other high profile productions including dramas such as Cider With Rosie, Five Daughters (nominated for Best Original Score at the RTS awards) Great Expectations (BBC) and documentaries including Francesco’s Venice and Simon Schama’s The Power of Art: Caravaggio (BBC2).

His extensive theatre work includes many scores for productions by the RSC, The National Theatre and Shared Experience Theatre.