Peter Aston

Peter Aston
Birth / Death Dates
1938-1913
Description

Peter Aston's published compositions include chamber music, choral and orchestral works and a children’s opera, but he is best known as a composer of church music, much of which is performed regularly throughout the English-speaking world. As a conductor and lecturer, he directed many courses and workshops for composers in the UK and overseas, especially in the USA. He was also a musicologist and baroque-music scholar. Peter died in 2013.