Peter Dodsworth

Peter trained at the Royal Academy of Music, London as a joint principal study bassoonist and pianist. He was the first person in the history of the R.A.M. to win the Florence Woodbridge Bassoon Prize in their first year of study and subsequently was asked to play at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

His enthusiasm for musical theatre grew whilst at music college and his professional career in this field took off just before he left. His music director/conducting credits include Chess(Churchill Theatre, Bromley) Company (Catford Broadway Theatre), Cabaret (Catford Theatre) and A Celebration of Christmas (Jermyn St. Theatre), and he has been repetiteur for The Yeomen of the Guard and Mack and Mabel (Churchill Theatre), and The Mikado (Pleasance Theatre). He has compiled and directed cabarets at 'Pizza on the Park', 'The Water Rats' and various other London venues.

His performance credits include City of Angels and A Slice of Saturday Night (R.A.M.), The World Goes Round and They’re Playing our Song (Edinburgh), The Phantom & the Opera (West End and UK Tour) and The Lion King (West End).

Peter has also recently been Musical Director for Spend, Spend, Spend! at Amersham & Wycombe College, working with the first year HND students. He is one of the singing teachers for Boden Studios & Agency in Enfield (Britain's first ever combined stage school for children) and is also an organist and choir master.

Peter enjoys his career in musical theatre alongside his individual and masterclass teaching and his ensemble and solo concert work which has taken him all over the world since the age of 15. For more information, please visit www.peterdodsworth.co.uk