Peter Wilson is a composer and musical chameleon based in Australia. His output is a genre-bending riot of exploration, encompassing solo and chamber pieces, ballet scores, film soundtracks, theatre works, piano improvisations, and the odd commercial track. These disparate pieces are unified, however, by Peter’s passion for crafting inventive and emotionally-engaging soundworlds.

 

For his theatre music, Peter is an ‘Offie’-nominated and Olivier Award-winning composer. He has worked on productions for a number of London’s prominent venues including the Old Vic, National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Soho Theatre, and The Pleasance. Notable recent projects include a 30-minute narrative ballet ‘Wonderland’ for The Australian Ballet, and ‘The Wasteland’: a collaboration with Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.

 

As a composer of concert music, Peter has worked with the Riot Ensemble, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Loré Lixenberg, Ensemble 360, Ligeti Quartet, and Norrbotten NEO. He has been commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, is an Associate Composer of the University of York Music Press, and has had music recorded and released by NMC Recordings and Coviello. A selection of his concert works is sold by Wirripang Publishers.

 

Peter has composed music for short films, documentaries, and installations. From 2019-21 he was a regular collaborator with Dialogue LLC (Seattle) and Microsoft, composing music for a range of videos and mixed-media works.

 

In addition, Peter works as a pianist with ballet companies. He has played for the Royal Ballet, The Australian Ballet, Northern Ballet, and Matthew Bourne New Adventures. He has worked on classic and contemporary scores by composers including Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Richard Rodney Bennett, Minkus, and Joby Talbot. He is currently employed by The Australian Ballet as Company Pianist.

 

Peter has been described as “having a willingness to engage in small, strange details” - a diagnosis Peter quite enjoyed.