Peter Mallinson is a former Head Chorister of New College Choir, Oxford and a graduate in music of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (where he was a Choral Scholar and University Instrumental Award holder). He recently completed a Postgraduate Performance Course at the Royal Academy of Music, and graduated with Distinction; he studied modern viola with Martin Outram, and baroque viola with

Jane Rogers. He has given the UK première performance of Sally Beamish’s That Recent Earth for unaccompanied viola and played in world premières of works by Amber Priestley, Diana Burrell, Claudia Molitor and Jeremy Thurlow. Peter has played in many of Cambridge’s most prestigious orchestras and ensembles and continues to perform early music with the Cambridge Handel Opera Group (CHOG) and the Cambridge University Collegium Musicum (CUCM). A recent tour of Hong Kong and China with the St Catharine’s College Ensemble saw performances of works by Bach and Mozart. In 2008 he gave the world première of Robin Holloway’s Suite en Saga for solo viola, a work he later performed at the Ravenna Music Festival in its original incidental music form. At the beginning of 2009 Peter played with the Dmitri Ensemble and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge in première recordings (released on the Albion label) of works by Vaughan Williams, under the baton of Sir David Willcocks. As a chamber musician Peter is also much in demand for private functions, and he has experimented with all styles of music. He recently recorded the soundtrack for several short films and has worked with soul and jazz singer Jennifer Moore for her debut album, due to be released later this year. In London Peter has performed with the Orlando Consort and the Hanover Band, and played under the direction of Sir Charles Mackerras, Jane Glover, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Trevor Pinnock in works ranging from Handel to Shostakovich and Charlie Piper. He recently achieved second place, Highly Commended, in the Theodore Holland Viola Prize. When he is not playing the viola Peter enjoys teaching, singing with various choirs around London and Cambridge, and playing the organ for church services. http://www.petermallinson.com/