JOHN PEACE is a music graduate of Durham University. He was a Senior Lecturer in Music in the Music & Drama School of Performing Arts in Liverpool, Head of Keyboard Studies and a course leader. During the 1980s he greatly valued artistic consultations with distinguished pianist Gordon Fergus-Thompson, professor at Royal College of Music

 

John has performed and broadcast as soloist, accompanist and chamber music pianist, in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, both Liverpool cathedrals, St George's Hall, Liverpool Parish Church, Wakefield Cathedral, Chester Town Hall, Horniman Museum London, Music Societies of Wigan and of Rochdale, Worcester Three Choirs Festival, Manchester Bach Society, recitals in Devon, Dorset. During 2009-10 he gave a series of piano recitals in the Stockholm area of Sweden.

 

He has lectured and performed at several EPTA (UK) International Conferences in London, Manchester & Liverpool and in 1991 initiated the Liverpool area of EPTA, also held organ appointments and choral directorships in Durham, Hereford, London, Liverpool.

 

John Peace is author of a book on piano technique "The Complete Pianist - the Whiteside & Dalcroze approach" 1993 (Castillon Press), also of a study of the songs of Debussy, Fauré, Ravel. In 1991 he became initial organiser of the Merseyside branch of European Piano Teachers Association (UK); EPTA has regional and national groups in over forty countries.

 

Among his many piano pupils was Ian Hobson before he entered university, and whose international pianistic career was subsequently launched with First Prize at the 1981 Leeds International Piano Competition.