Biography

Peter was the recipient of the highest award in Dutch classical music, the Nederlandse Muziekprijs as well as the John Christie Award (Glyndebourne Festival Opera). He was a triple prize winner at the Den Bosch International Vocalists Competition and won the Schallplattenpreis for his recording of Henze’s Kammermusik 1958 (NDR Symfony Orchestra).

His operatic repertoire includes the roles of Don José in Bizet’s Carmen and Orfeo in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Longborough Festival Opera), Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata (Scottish Opera, Longborough Festival Opera), Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Scottish Opera, Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, Opera Zuid), Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and Gonzalve in Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole (Opera Zuid), The Novice in Britten’s Billy Budd (Bolshoi Theatre, Glyndebourne and BAM New York) and Janiček in Diary of one who dissappeard by Janáček (Opéra de Lyon/Muziektheater Transparant).

On the concert platform Peter has worked will all the major orchestras in Holland like the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (St. Matthew Passion by Bach released on DVD with Art House), as well as with orchestras abroad like the Brussels and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.

Peter has recorded multiple CD’s with labels CAvi, Phaedra and MDG amongst which are full recitals of Strauss, Schubert, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Duparc, Dupré, Mortelmans and Van Hoof songs. He has been on the jury for the first round of the IVC Song competition and was invited as a master at the Udo Reinemann International Masterclasses alongside Christianne Stotijn.