Artistic Director of Immersive Messiah – a new initiative creating a fully filmed and recorded version of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ using spatial audio to surround the audience on playback.

Ritual for the Western Red Cedar – A work celebrating the Western Red Cedar at Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, Seattle. Using 9 solar powered audio devices (by Kulumi) to create ‘virtual processions’ around the trees.

Motets for the Forest – an ongoing series of choral meditations intended to be played back in woodland via multichannel systems, using traditions from western choral singing.

Matins, le Baie de Faviere. Guitar solo written and performed by Pete M. Wyer. Included in the album ‘Laulu’.

Yaddo Artist Fellowship. March 2023.

Bloedel Artist Fellowship. October 2023.

Album release: Laulu, solo classical guitar works.

‘Bobby Previte VS. The Speakers’. An improvised spatial audio concerto performed by Bobby Previte with/against a 24 channel speaker system in Rhinebeck, New York with sounds and music by Pete M. Wyer.

‘The Cat’ a 35 minute work for mezzo-soprano and piano in 5 movements. Book, lyrics and music by Pete M. Wyer.

In the Valley of Unending Return. Book of short fictional stories inspired by nature.

Ga Sho workshops with 24 channel system, Rhinebeck. Produced by the American Opera Project. Mary Rose Go, soprano, Laura Virella, mezzo-soprano, Matthew Gray Director.

Setting of ‘The Sunlight on the Garden’ by Louis MacNeice.

Spring Street. An opera inspired by the Manhattan street, featuring a cast of three singers.

Premiered Jeeni, to an audience of 60,000. July 24th 2021.

Setting of Charles Algernon Swinburne’s ‘Atalanta’ as ‘Unto Her The Stars’.

Album release: Spring Street.

The Sky Beneath Our Feet. A work for 72 voice choir over 72 independent speakers. Installed at Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles. Inspired by the landscape of California Live Oaks, a 55 minute work for 72 voices with orchestra, played back from an array of 72 independent speakers. Using ancient languages that had a close relationship to trees and nature such as early Norse and Aquitanian.

I Walk Towards Myself. A spatial audio work for 72 voices distributed via 24 speakers at the Russell Wright Center, Manitoga. July – October 2020.

Album release: The Sky Beneath Our Feet.

Album release: Cremenville (a studio album featuring songs performed by Pete adapted from the 2006 work for Opera North).

A Blackbird Map. In collaboration with London Wildlife. A sound-map of Sydenham Hill wood at
5.00am for National Dawn Chorus Day. Recorded in 9 locations simultaneously to produce a
‘God’s-ear’ perspective of the wood. Made available to the public online.

Insomnia Poems. Album release of collaboration with American poet Steve Dalachinsky to
celebrate 10 years since the first recording for BBC Radio 3 ‘Jazz on 3’.

World premiere of new reworking of Insomnia Poems at Cafe Oto, London, May 3rd. 2019, with Steve Dalachinksy, Evelyne Beech, Chris Cundy, Robert Perry and Pete M. Wyer. Poems by Steve Dalachinsky, Time structured score and found sounds by Pete M. Wyer

Twilight Chorus for Humans. A spatial audio work for live synchronised choir (via app). The choir
sing transcriptions of birdsong as they move around the grounds, gradually gathering together into a single chorus. Brooklyn Botanic Garden,

Drums Along the Hudson. Adapted version of ‘I Walk Towards Myself’ for Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan.

MacDowell Artist Fellowship. March 2018.

Messums, Wiltshire. Song of the Human. Re-imagined for the 12th century barn in Wiltshire, England.

After the concert in Brookfield Place, Manhattan, the 18 speaker installation remained in location for 3 weeks.

Blue Mountain Center Artist Residency.

Tete a Tete Opera Festival, London. Gut – an opera for solo baritone with electronics addressing
the issues of mental health via a story of breakdown. With libretto and score by Pete M. Wyer.

Three Graces, Liverpool.
A celebration of the city of Liverpool for the 150th anniversary of the Cunard cruise line. A specially created 25 minute film was projected onto the ‘Three Graces’ Liverpool’s famous dockland buildings, the score included spoken word and found sounds from Liverpool’s history. Approximately 100,000 people attended the three performances.

Synchronised Headphone Choir – New York City Wide.
Technology doesn’t need to divide us, it can unite us. At exactly 11.00am, June 21st 2014 using a
specially created app that synchronised all singers to an atomic clock. A choir that was spread
across New York all began singing the same work (a setting of Dylan Thomas’s ‘And Death Shall
Have No Dominion’). Following pre-set routes the singers set off walking as individuals,
gradually meeting more singers, forming a larger and larger choir until they were all united as a
single singing entity at Rockefeller Park, Manhattan. Film of the event can be seen here:
British Council/Make Music New York. And Death Shall Have No Dominion. A New York wide work to celebrate the centenary of Dylan Thomas using a pioneering ‘synchronised headphone choir’. A specially designed app synchronised the smartphones of singers all over New York City, it began playing a backing track at a precise start time and sopranos, altos, tenors and basses began singing simultaneously. They walked 45 minute routes across the city that gradually brought singers together until there was finally a single choir assembled in Rockefeller Park, Manhattan.

Hear the Voice of the Bard, BBC Radio 3. A live broadcast on BBC Radio 3 from St. Giles Church, Stratford on Avon. A commissioned setting of ‘Hear the Voice of the Bard’ by William Blake. For choir and orchestra.

Utowana. Twenty minute work for orchestra and electronics inspired by the artist fellowship at Blue Mountain Centre in 2013 in the Adirondack lakes of North America

Fellowship: Blue Mountain Center.

Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Sheherezade Interspersed – a setting of poetry by Rhian
Edwards for reciter and orchestra, performed by the orchestra of Welsh National Opera at St.
David’s Hall, Cardiff. The work was performed between movements of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherezade.

Olympic Ceremony, Coventry. Out Of The Flame. The closing song for Olympic Torch ceremony, Coventry. With Jumoke Fasola alto, backing singers and the Orchestra of the Swan. Performed to approx 20,000 people.

Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Sheherezade Interspersed – a setting of poetry by Rhian Edwards for reciter and orchestra, performed by the orchestra of Welsh National Opera at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff. The work was performed between movements of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherezade.

Olympic Ceremony, Coventry. Out Of The Flame. The closing song for Olympic Torch ceremony, Coventry. With Jumoke Fasola alto, backing singers and the Orchestra of the Swan. Performed to approx 20,000 people.

Bogliasco Fellowship. Italy. February 2011.

Best Composer Award, Fringe Report, 2011.

Royal Opera House. A spatial audio opera Numinous City’. An opera supported and commissioned by the Royal Opera House, London and later by American Opera Projects, New York.

London Symphony Orchestra/English National Ballet – The Far Shore, Ballet Score, created for Shanghai World Expo.

National Theatre Studio, London. 57 Hours In The House Of Culture – opera – a collaboration
with director Phyllida Lloyd, playwright Bryony Lavery and painter John Keane. Based on the true
events of the Moscow theatre siege of 2002. From 2010 – 2012.

Beijing International Orchestra Festival. Somehow the Miracle – specially created for the festival
which brings together student string players from across Asia.

Four string quartets inspired by Shakespearean sonnets, Orchestra of the Swan, Stratford on Avon.

Miro Dance Theatre. Spooky Action. A one hour dance-film-music collaboration inspired by the
phenomenon of quantum entanglement, with film by Tobin Rothlein and choreography by Amanda
Miller. World premiere: The Kimmel Centre, Philadelphia.

Brighton Festival/Tete a Tete Festival. Finkelstein’s Castle – Book, lyrics and music.
Music Theatre work. UK tour Brighton, Edinburgh, Bath and other festivals.

‘You Must Have This’ an opera on the complications of advertising. Tete a Tete Opera Festival, Hammersmith.

Score for BBC Television’s 10 x 30 minute episodes ‘Roman Mysteries’ with Simon Callow. Scored with Michael J. Cross. Theme by Pete M Wyer.

Album Release: Stories from the City at Night (Thirsty Ear Records)

‘66th and Broadway’ for brass quintet. World Premiere, Bergen, Norway.

‘Four Bridges’. Performed simultaneously by the Orchestra of the Swan (Stratford on Avon) in England; Burkhard Finke in Germany; Anand Thakore in Mumbai, India; and Toby Twining in Boston, USA. November 2005.

Juilliard, New York. Chelsea-Chelsea, a work for string quartet and two saxophones with live

electronics – simultaneously live in New York (Jazz at Lincoln Center) and London (606 Club, Chelsea).

‘Two Bridges’, for guitar and found sounds, Nottingham Guitar Festival performed by Abigail James.

‘Adam’s Apple’, UK and US Tour. Battersea Arts Centre Residency. Performance group ‘SharpWire’ (Matthew Sharp and Pete M. Wyer). A theatre piece featuring poetry set to music and original works by Pete M. Wyer.

‘An African Elegy’ setting of Ben Okri’s poem performed by Matthew Sharp for Park Lane Group, Purcell Room, ‘May Peace Prevail On Earth’ Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Voices, Barbican, London by Pete M. Wyer

‘Carry-On’. Modern Dance Score Alvin Ailey 2, choreographed by Jessica Lang.

‘Rain at Night’. Script and score by Pete M. Wyer, choreography, Jessica Lang. Juilliard School. Senior year students.

‘No-Bodies Baby’, Emilyn Claid, choreography, University of Surrey.

‘Imbalance’ Phrenic New Ballet, Philadelphia, score by Pete M. Wyer.

‘If I Had Known I Was Dreaming’. Purcell Room. London. Setting of Ono no Komachi for soprano and string quartet Japan 2001 Festival.

‘Machine for Living’ Corn Exchange, Brighton Festival. Choreographed by Carol Brown and Designed by Esther Rolinson, spatial score (electronics, found sounds, guitars and operatic soprano).

‘Flap’, Queen Elizabeth Hall. Solo dancer, Sarah Warsop, solo guitarist, Abigail James. Music Pete M. Wyer.

Album release: A Bell Ringing in an Empty Sky

‘Songs from a Blazing City’. Twenty five minute work for guitar, violin and cello.

‘America Suite’ Six guitar solos performed and recorded by guitarist Stephen Kenyon.