Welcome

Welcome to the new website of transatlantic composer, writer and performer Pete M Wyer.

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 is currently working on a commission for the National Theatre/ENO creating a new opera based on the Moscow theatre siege of 2003, working with painter John Keane, playwright Bryony Lavery and director, Phyllida Lloyd.

An album, Stories from the City at Night, was released by Thirsty Ear Records, New York in 2007.