Prof Peter Fribbins

Biography

Peter Fribbins is a composer whose music is performed, broadcast, and recorded internationally. Studies with the German composer Hans Werner Henze began a career that has produced c.40 concert works for a range of ensembles and orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Kammersymphonie Berlin, and Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. His music is widely performed and commercially recorded, with more than ten CDs available, three issued outside the UK, and is principally published by Music Haven Ltd.

Key external roles

• Artistic Director of the London Chamber Music Society, based at Kings Place, programming c.400 concerts with national and international ensembles there since 2008
• Co-director of Fenlandia, a new festival celebrating the culture and landscape of the East Anglian fens, in collaboration with key social, political, cultural, and environmental groups in the area.

Teaching

Main areas of supervision and teaching:

• Musical composition
• British classical music after 1900
• Chamber music
• Music aesthetics and genre
• Leadership in the Arts
• Music event management; Artistic Direction and Curation