Biography

Peter Thompson was born in Peterborough. He studied composition with Carey Blyton at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1983, his String Quartet no 1 won first prize in the MidNAG national composition competition.

Since that date, his music has been widely performed, often at London’s South Bank and other cultural centres. His music has also been broadcast, notably on Classic FM, and is available on CD from Fand Music Recordings.

In 1995 he was a prizewinner in the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) International Composers’ Competition, and in 1996 he won the competition.

In 2014 his Cello Sonatina was featured on the Sleeveless Records label by cellist Lionel Handy and pianist Nigel Clayton on their CD, From Bohemia to Wessex. His music is published by FAND MUSIC PRESS www.fandmusic.com 

Selected works include…

Orchestral

Symphony no 1

Symphony no 2

Symphony no 3

Symphony no 4

Symphony no 5 "The Sonnet"

Symphonietta Doppio

Five Elegiac Fragments

Hampshire Summers

Labyrinth for Orchestra

Prelude for Orchestra: “Stress”

Serenade for Orchestra

South Coast Postcards for Orchestra

Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra

Concertino for Cello and Orchestra

Chamber

String Quartets nos 1–7

String Trio for Two Violins and Cello

Roundels for Violin and Cello

Ballet for Clarinet in B flat, Cello and Piano

Sonatina for Bass Clarinet (or Bassoon) and Cello

Meditation for Soprano, Flute and Harp

Top o’ the Morning for Brass Quintet

Instrumental

Aubade for Flute and Piano

Recorder (or Flute) Sonatina

Suite of Six Pipers for Recorder and Piano

Suite for Oboe and Piano

Ballad for Solo Violin

Calydon Eclogue for Solo Violin

Pastoral for Violin and Piano

Three Ritornels for Violin and Piano

Romance for Viola or Clarinet and Piano

Elegiac Ballad for Solo Cello

In Rutland for Solo Cello

Cello Sonata

Cello Sonatina

Écossaises for Cello and Piano

Sonnet for Solo Guitar

Epithalamium I–III for Organ and Organ Duet

Piano

Suites nos 1–13

Ballad

Bicycle Ride

Burlesque

June Tune

March Hares

May Song

The Renaissance Spirit

Sidlesham Quay

Sketches & Fancies

Soliloquy

Sonatina

Three November Poems

Three Pieces

Toccata

Two Wildflowers

Choral

A Red, Red Rose

At the Window

Carol

Hope and Fear

The Keys of Heaven (arrangement)

Prayer Against Lightning

Songs

The Daisies

Dark Veils

Dawn

Echoes

Four Swinburne Pictures

The Green of the Semiquaver

The Lamb

The Oblation

Three Poems by Helen Clarke

Two Henley Poems

Two Robert Southey Poems

When I was One-and-Twenty

Ventimiglia