A FORMER student of Dame Gillian Weir and Allan Wicks (Organ), and Ronald Smith (Piano), Peter King was appointed Director of Music at Bath Abbey in 1986. Under his direction the Abbey Choir has visited Germany, Holland and France, and has released six CDs and broadcast on BBC TV and Radio 3. In 1997 Peter started a Girls’ Choir at Bath Abbey; it quickly established itself as one of the finest musical ensembles in Bath. Together with Nicolas Kynaston, Peter was responsible for the design and installation of the Abbey’s Klais Organ. His 6 CDs on the new instrument, Great European Organs, 51; Fantasie, German Romantic Organ Works; Baroquery; Mozart – works for solo organ; Romantic Organ Music; and  Respighi, Poulenc and Rheinberger - Works for Organ and Orchestra have been highly acclaimed by the critics.

Peter was Assistant Chorus Director to the CBSO during all of Sir Simon Rattle’s reign as Musical Director and he still plays the organ regularly with the orchestra. He plays on Rattle’s EMI recordings of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony and Symphony of a Thousand. Recent work has included concerts all over Europe; highlights have included recitals at Ingolstadt Minster, Cologne Cathedral, Grote Sint Laurence Kerk, Alkmaar, an opening recital on the new organ in Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao, and Birmingham, where he played at the opening of the new Organ in Symphony Hall. Other engagements have included solo appearances with the CBSO (Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony) and The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields (Poulenc’s Organ Concerto). His recitals at the Bath Mozartfest have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Peter King holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Bath.

Work in 2007/8 included a trip to Aix-en-Provence with Bath Abbey Girls' Choir, return visits to Westminster Abbey, St John's College Cambridge, Truro Cathedral and Germany, 2 broadcasts of Choral Evensong for BBC Radio 3, 2 broadcasts of Choral Mattins for BBC Radio 4, recordings of works for Organ & Orchestra by Poulenc, Respighi and Rheinberger with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, a 2 CD set of Liszt's organ music, a CD of Organ Lollipops, and a CD of music by or honouring George Frederick Handel for release in 2009.