Welcome
Welcome to the website of composer, writer and performer Pete M Wyer.
Pete’s diverse portfolio includes scores for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Juilliard Academy in New York, and original work for television and the BBC. He is currently on attachment to the National Theatre creating a new operatic work based on the Moscow theatre siege of 2003, with director Phyllida Lloyd, painter John Keane and playwright Bryony Lavery.
Shanghai World Expo 2010
Pete, who is based in London, is also writing a ballet score for English National Ballet with the London Symphony Orchestra for premiere at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
Pete’s CD Stories from the City at Night, acclaimed and broadcast on both sides of the Atlantic, is a compelling musical narrative about New York that combines storytelling, song, sound design and score (Thirsty Ear, 2008).
His moving setting of Ben Okri’s poem, An African Elegy, was performed at the Purcell Room in 2002 and he is currently exploring ideas inspired by Okri’s work with the Royal Opera House (ROH2).
Pete has become known for his ground-breaking work creating ‘time-structured mapping’ and created the first worldwide simultaneous work for improvising performers, ‘Four Bridges’. The process involved an orchestra (The Orchestra Of The S wan in Stratford) playing from a time-structured score, while others around the world – an Indian raga singer in Mumbai, a pianist in Germany and a micro-tonal singer in America – played independently from the same score.
Pete’s concert commissions include If I had known I was Dreaming, An African Elegy and Flap, (Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall) and May Peace Prevail on Earth (RPO, Barbican, 2003).
Works in multi-media, collaborative theatre include ‘in the darkness of light’ (Cochrane Theatre), Machine for Living (Corn Exchange, Brighton, Carol Brown, 2000), Rain at Night (Juilliard Academy, New York, 2002), Another Place (Surrey Dance, Suna Imre, 2003) and Senbazuru (2006), a second Juilliard commission for the centenary of the academy, performed at Lincoln Center, New York with the Juilliard orchestra and opera singers, conducted by Andrea Quinn with choreography by Jessica Lang. He also formed the company SharpWire with cellist, singer and actor, Matthew Sharp, creating the touring multi-media song-cycle Adam’s Apple (with Matthew) as well as the works, Cremenville (Opera North 2006), You Must Have This (Tete a Tete Opera Festival, 2008) Johnny’s Midnight Goggles (Brighton Festival, 2008) and Finkelstein’s Castle (Brighton Festival 2009).
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