A leading voice in musical history, direction, performance and vocal training

Dr Peter Giles is both a distinguished writer in the academic world and a novelist. He is an authority on the countertenor, or male high voice, and spent many years as a singer, voice trainer and musical director. Now retired from the concert platform, he continues to lecture and to provide occasional choral and ensemble direction, in addition to taking selected students in voice production and singing. He also delivers occasional spoken voice-overs for film and video.

In 1995 he co-founded the Campaign for the Traditional Cathedral Choir (now the Traditional Cathedral Choir Association), dedicated to protecting and promoting a unique male-voice tradition dating back over a thousand years.

Alongside his musical career and literary life, Peter Giles is a trained visual artist with various exhibitions and commissions to his name.

His forthcoming second novel, He that Looks on Glass, is a vivid exercise in experimental literature combining text, visuals and striking graphic design. A limited edition, signed and numbered, is planned.