Peter Bannister

Festival, Notre-Dame de Paris, Arras, Bourges, Chartres, Chichester, Münster, Oliwa, Ulm and Villingen Cathedrals, Festival Europäischer Kirchenmusik Schwäbisch Gmünd, Festival J.S. Bach St Donat, Würzburger Bachtage, Wiener Klangbogen, Settembre Musicale di Trieste, Pollini Auditorium Padova …) and North America (Ann Arbor, Boston, Cleveland Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Montreal International Congress of Organists, New York, San Antonio) as well as broadcasts on Italian and American public radio. In May 2002 he was a featured composer at the Rencontres Musicales de La Prée chamber music festival. In March 2004 his Nuages de Magellan received its first performance with support from Musique Nouvellé en Liberté at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées conducted by John Nelson, who also directed his Pursued by bronze horsemen in memory of Shostakovich commissioned by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris (May 2006). Current projects include Abendempfindung for the Polish soprano Aleksandra Zamojska, a trio …jakby na krawedzi swiata inspired by the writings of Bruno Schulz for the New York clarinettist David Gould, a choral cycle Da stand das Meer on words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the series of motets As now through our night beckons radiance in homage to Anton Bruckner, seven movements for choir, soloists, organ and orchestra entitled Et iterum venturus est for John Nelson and SOLI DEO GLORIA, a concerto for the French cellist Dominique de Williencourt and a large symphonic work for the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker.

As a solo pianist and organist, he has appeared with orchestra (concertos by Handel, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov …) and in  recital in Britain (BBC TV), Austria (Wiener Stephansdom), Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany (Baden-Baden, Bonn, Berlin, Hannover, Konstanz, Nürnberg, Stuttgart), Holland, Italy (Arezzo, Chiusi della Verna, Noale, Ravenna), Poland, Switzerland and the USA. His repertoire is eclectic, ranging from performances of early music on historic instruments to all-improvised recitals and contemporary music (Florentz, Gubaidulina, Tom Johnson, Kurtag, MacMillan, Pärt…). He has been invited to give lectures and masterclasses in France, Croatia (Organnum Histriae Festival 2001), Sweden (Gothenburg Organ Art Academy 1996, 1998) and North America (as guest artist at the Carthage College Organ Festival, Wisconsin 1996). He is also active in the field of opera as a vocal coach with a particular focus on Eastern European and contemporary music, collaborating in recent seasons with the Opéra National de Paris, the Théâtre du Châtelet, Festival Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, Choeur de chambre Accentus and Ensemble Intercontemporain, working with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, James Conlon, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Sylvain Cambreling, Vladimir Jurowski, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Jiri Belohlavek and Dennis Russell Davies.