About
Peter Nagle is a composer, musician and sound artist based in London. His practice encompases improvisation, alternative tunings, drone and loop textures and movement, often in cross- and trans-disciplinary contexts.
Peter studied composition at Sheffield University with David Harold Cox, and later with Michael Finnissy. He was twice shortlisted for the Huddersfield New Music Festival Young Composers Award. His music has also been performed in Bath, Birmingham, Manchester and London, by ensembles and performers including Elision, the New Music Players, the Duke Quartet, Angharad Davies and rarescale.
As a performer Peter has appeared at venues throughout London including the Horse Improvised Music Club, Linear Obsessional Live, I’Klectik and APT Gallery. He has performed solo and with musicians such as Angharad Davies, Tom Jackson, Orphy Robinson, Sarah Nicolls, Laura Jurd, Elliot Galvin, John Richards (aka Dirty Electronics), Tansy Spinks and Rahel Kraft.
Recent works include piece The Convalescent, an installation and performance piece presented at APT Gallery Deptford in April 2018, An Equal and Opposite Reaction, released on Linear Obsessional in 2019, and Once Up On a Cube, a collaboration with Sirocco Dance Theatre originally staged in 2022 and more recently featured in the 2023 Totally Thames Festival. His dance soundtrack Invisible Cities was released in August 2022 and an album by his improvising duo Rising of the Lights is forthcoming on Dog Tunnel Records.
Peter is currently working towards a PhD in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban, researching ambiguities of identity in transdisciplinary collaboration.
Peter studied composition at Sheffield University with David Harold Cox, and later with Michael Finnissy. He was twice shortlisted for the Huddersfield New Music Festival Young Composers Award. His music has also been performed in Bath, Birmingham, Manchester and London, by ensembles and performers including Elision, the New Music Players, the Duke Quartet, Angharad Davies and rarescale.
As a performer Peter has appeared at venues throughout London including the Horse Improvised Music Club, Linear Obsessional Live, I’Klectik and APT Gallery. He has performed solo and with musicians such as Angharad Davies, Tom Jackson, Orphy Robinson, Sarah Nicolls, Laura Jurd, Elliot Galvin, John Richards (aka Dirty Electronics), Tansy Spinks and Rahel Kraft.
Recent works include piece The Convalescent, an installation and performance piece presented at APT Gallery Deptford in April 2018, An Equal and Opposite Reaction, released on Linear Obsessional in 2019, and Once Up On a Cube, a collaboration with Sirocco Dance Theatre originally staged in 2022 and more recently featured in the 2023 Totally Thames Festival. His dance soundtrack Invisible Cities was released in August 2022 and an album by his improvising duo Rising of the Lights is forthcoming on Dog Tunnel Records.
Peter is currently working towards a PhD in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban, researching ambiguities of identity in transdisciplinary collaboration.