:Pete M. Wyer is an award winning composer from England. He has created scores for the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Juilliard, Welsh National Opera, BBC Television and the Royal Opera House . He has written eight operas and music theatre works as well as many scores for modern dance and ballet.
His Immersive Forest installations have received more than 500,000 visitors at New York Botanical Gardens, Brookfield Place, The Wild Center and others. His 2020 installation ‘The Sky Beneath Our Feet’ for 72 voices (9 choirs of 8), was written for areas of California live oaks in Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles. As with all his large scale choral installations it was intended to create the experience of encountering our own species as a part of nature, and used Pete’s unique spatial-scoring system to create a map the music to the environment so that the experience was always unique depending on where you walked, weather and on seasonal conditions – a collaboration with nature.
His ‘synchronised headphone choirs’ (2014, 2018, 2024 and 2025) have brought choral music to the streets; singers begin by being spread across a city. Street Motet Pete’s setting of the ‘metta sutra’ (a 2,500 year old meditation) premiered in New York in winter 2024 and was performed again in 2025, culminating at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Singing begins at the exact same moment, wherever they are, synchronised via an app. Their routes then slowly converge over perhaps 40 minutes until they come together as a single, unified choir. In 2025, was performed across Harlem, Central Park and the Upper West Side of New York, culminating at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
In 2026 Pete received a 6 week Fellowship from the Emily Harvey Foundation for a residency in Venice during which he wrote A Map of the Invisible a sound installation, album and book which will combine Pete’s spatial choral writing with found sounds from Venice and improvisations so as this one during his stay: Rooftop Improvisation the work will receive it’s World Premiere at The Fitzrovia Chapel London as a 16 speaker installation for two weeks, opening on July 12th.
Pete’s song ‘Natural World’ for the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough is released on May 8th. It has been supported by Pete Townshend and Brian Eno and includes 40 participating choirs from around the world, the project is featured on ABC Australia, BBC Newsroom and NPR. Click here to visit the main website for Natural World
Throughout his career, Pete has received numerous commissions, awards and fellowships, including, in 2026, becoming a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a historic charity dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. His work is strongly driven by a desire to foster human connection, both to each other and to the natural world.