Currently living and working in Melbourne, Australia, Peter Tregear is a former lecturer in music at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and has worked extensively as a singer, conductor, and academic, in opera and music theatre. He has particular research interests in music between the two world wars, and the music criticism of Edward Said. In 2001 he conducted the UK stage premiere of Max Brand’s Maschinist Hopkins at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, to international acclaim, and in 2005 he he conducted the first performance in English of Venyamin Fleishmann’s opera Rothschild’s Violin. Stage roles include Belcore (L’Elisir d’amore), Pluto (L'Orfeo), Marchese D’Obigny (La Traviata), Drebednyov (Moscow Cheryomushki) and Don Poppone (La Diavolessa).
Future engagements include performances with the Tallis Scholars, Victoria Opera, and Melbourne Opera.