Sans Day Carol

About

Pete Churchill is a composer pianist singer and teacher. He taught for almost twenty years at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and in 2000 became Professor of Jazz Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In his freelance career he has worked as the British accompanist for jazz-singer Mark Murphy as a musical director in the West End and as conductor with the Kenny Wheeler Big Band. As an educator and choral director Pete has taught at the Sibelius Academy (Finland) at the University of Queensland (Brisbane) and on behalf of ABRSM in SE Asia and Hong Kong. His own choir 'The London Vocal Project' have performed alongside jazz artists such as Dame Cleo Laine and Bobby McFerrin. In 2007 he received the Parliamentary Award for Services to Jazz Education.