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Peter is currently preparing his BBC Proms commission, which he will also conduct on Saturday 28th July 2007. The work is entitled He is Armoured Without and is for the BBC Philharmonic, trumpet soloist Hakan Hardenberger, musicians from Uzbekistan, Coldstream Guards, plus 150 more brass players.
Recent works include Earth and Stars (October 2006) ensemble xx.jahrhundert, which director Peter Burwik, premiered in Vienna, celebrating 250 years since Mozart's birth. The Great Wheel, parts 1,2 and 3 London Sinfonietta and musicians from Uzbekistan, Glasgow/ London (2003), Brief Encounter National Opera Studio/ Southbank Sinfonia London (2004), Farewells take place in silence Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Birmingham (2004) the burden'd air for cello (Matthew Barley) and live electronics, (2006) at St Luke’s, LSO as part of the iF festival which also saw Peter direct cho cho for Japanese ensemble Tozai mixing trad and modern instruments (2006).
Ensembles and orchestras Peter has worked with as a conductor, since 2002,include the London Sinfonietta, Endymion Ensemble, Northern Sinfonia, Southbank Sinfonia. He has also conducted at home and internationally for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Joensuu Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia and Orchestra Camarata Labacensis, .
Peter Wiegold has also been a regular conductor of the Composers' Ensemble, most recently at The Royal Academy of Art in a concert for artist Tom Phillips (2005) and in Dartington, Brighton, Bath, Oxford, Darmstadt, Salzburg, Holland and . In the summer of 2002 he directed the Composers Ensemble in a Proms Portrait of Pierre Boulez in the presence of the composer.
He is co-Artistic Director (with Colin Riley) of iF, a radical London Festival of new music and is Professor, Head of Music Research, at Brunel University.
He led an extended project with bcmg mixing improvisation, realisation and composition. This culminated in the opening concert of their 2004-5 season Invisible Cities which received outstanding reviews.
This month Peter began working with composer Joby Talbot and Working Title productions, creating the music for Hunky Dory, the new Catherine Zeta Jones film, which begins production this summer in Swansea and Cardiff, .
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