Conductor and composer Peter Le Tissier studied at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he obtained both a BMus (Hons), and an MMus, majoring in orchestral conducting and studying under Rebecca Miller and Neil Ferris.

Since beginning to conduct in 2015, Peter has gone on to found a number of orchestras and ensembles. These include the Englefield Green Festival Orchestra, with whom he has performed works by Beethoven, Wagner, and Bruckner alongside new pieces, including Peter’s own Serenade for guitar and chamber orchestra, and Leonardo’s Legacy, commissioned for Portuguese composer Miguel Diniz and premiered in March 2019. Peter is also Musical Director and co-founder of the Surbiton Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has performed large-scale works, such as Bruckner's Symphony no. 4, ‘Romantic’, and Mahler's 5th Symphony, featuring a mix of promising young soloists in works by Weber, Rachmaninov and Mozart.

Peter’s work has also extended to smaller ensembles featuring more daring repertoire. During his undergraduate, Peter directed and conducted the Luciform Sinfonietta, a flexible chamber ensemble performing works ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky and Schönberg. A June 2018 performance of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring was a particular highlight of their artistic collaboration.

As a guest conductor, Peter has featured most notably with the Leamington Sinfonia, with whom he prepared a performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony originally scheduled for March 2020, as well as taking charge of the final concert of the Southwest London Tennis Philharmonic, featuring Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Additionally, whilst at Royal Holloway Peter filled the role of Assistant Conductor, and in 2019 this involved directing the Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra’s tour to Flanders, featuring Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony. Other future projects include works by Vaughan Williams, Mozart and Mahler with the Surbiton Symphony Orchestra, as well as the founding of Peter’s own invitational orchestra in London, the Magna Carta Sinfonia, whose debut - a socially-distanced recording session - was in May 2021, with a ‘live debut’ planned for October this year.

As a composer and orchestrator, Peter has completed many works before, during and post- his degree courses. His works have been performed at a number of venues, including the Picture Gallery at Royal Holloway, University of London, as well as at St. John’s Church, Egham. Additionally, Peter’s activities have included a number of orchestrations, including of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata. His orchestration of Arthur Somervell’s song-cycle A Shropshire Lad was performed by the Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra in Belgium in 2019, to great acclaim.