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Peter Neville is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and was appointed Head of Percussion there in 2000. He works across the range of musical styles but has a particular committment to new music. He has performed, toured and recorded with the Elision ensemble for 20 years. Works written for and premiered by Peter include Chris Dench’s Driftglass, for percussion and ensemble, and Richard Barrett’s Abglanzbeladen-Auseinandergeschrieben. Peter is also a member of groups including Jouissance, the David Chesworth Ensemble and Speak Percussion. He has played and toured with the Australian Youth Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, including the Australian premiere of Messiaen’s Turangalila symphony, in the presence of the composer. He has performed in West Side Story, Cats and Company and in three Australian tours of the Broadway version of The Pirates of Penzance. He toured Australia as musical director of Tap Dogs, and other theatrical tours have included the Australia/China tour of Playbox Theatre’s Cho-Cho-San, and Richard the Third with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Within dance orchestras he has supported performances of the Bolshoi Ballet, the Russian State Ballet, Nureyev’s farewell tour and the Netherlands Dance Theatre. With HumanVeins Dance Theatre he took part in the Australian premieres of Iannis Xenakis’s Oresteia, and was guest drummer with the Balanescu Quartet in their three Australian seasons of Possessed with the Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre. Peter appears on CD recordings ranging from pop albums by Peter Andre and Deborah Conway to the experimental industrial album New Maps of Hell by sound artist Paul Schutze. In March 2006 Peter was Creative Director for the Commonwealth Games International Youth Masterclass In Percussion. |
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