Dr Peter Litman
HonDMus, MA, BMus, FLCM, FFCM, FNCM, AHEA
Fields: Music (Choral); Academic Staff Development

Dr Peter Litman originally trained as an organist at Canterbury. Expanding on his organ performance skills he then studied choral direction under Colin Durrant and Therees Hibbard. His début as a choral conductor was in 1997 when he conducted Britten’s St Nicholas in St John’s Smith Square, London. Since then Peter has been in demand as a conductor nationally and locally. Other major venues have included St Bride’s Fleet Street, and the Mayfair Chapel London; Lancaster Town Hall; York Minster, Canterbury and Rochester Cathedrals; and internationally in Zwiefalten Muenster, Zwiefalten; and Martinskirche, Pfullingen, South West Germany; Toronto, Canada; and important cultural centres in France and Belgium.

Formerly (2004-2006) Peter was Conducting Pedagogue at Roehampton University for the MA Choral Education Course. He is currently reading for a PhD with Dr Colin Durrant in Choral Education and has published papers on Choral Conducting and the dynamic interaction between choir and conductor. Peter is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Church Music of the Central School of Religion and has recently been given an honorary DMus degree by the National Conservatorio de Lima for his work in Choral Education.

From January 2001 to July 2009 Peter was Director of Music at St Martin's and St Paul's Churches, Canterbury. In consultation with Roger Fisher, in 2009 he was appointed Director of Music to St Peter's Collegiate Church, Ruthin, North Wales.