Peter Dyke was born in Hertfordshire and was Organ Scholar of Robinson College, Cambridge. He was awarded second prize in the prestigious Interpretation Competition at the St Albans International Organ Festival in 1993, and in 1998 he took up his current post as Assistant Director of Music at Hereford Cathedral, where, as well as accompanying daily services, he has played regularly for the choir on radio and television broadcasts. He founded and directs the cathedral’s voluntary choir, which has made five tours to Germany and actively supports young composers of sacred music.

Peter has a keen interest in teaching and has helped to found two highly successful organists’ training schemes; his work in this and other fields was recognised by the Royal School of Church Music in its awarding him the ARSCM in 2010. His most recent solo CD, including his own transcription of Elgar’s Enigma Variations, quickly received favourable reviews at home and internationally. In 2005 he recorded a series of short programmes from Germany for BBC Radio 3, exploring J S Bach’s 260-mile journey on foot to Lübeck in 1705, broadcast as part of A Bach Christmas.

More recent events have included recitals across the UK, in Nuremberg, Paris (Notre Dame Cathedral) and Sées (Normandy), a seventh ‘home’ Three Choirs Festival, and children’s workshops in Hereford and Ludlow, incorporating his own transcription of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.