
Composer, performer, educator
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Peter Nagle is a composer-performer, sonic artist, educator and researcher based in London. His practice encompasses improvisation, alternative tunings, drone and loop textures, electronica and movement, often in multi- and trans-disciplinary contexts. His research interests revolve around identities and approaches in transdisciplinary collaboration, and ambiguity and uncertainty as aesthetic strategies.
Peter studied composition with David Harold Cox at Sheffield University, and later with Michael Finnissy. He obtained his doctorate in creative practice in 2024 at Trinity Laban, where he also teaches. Regular collaborations include Rising of the Lights with Jonny Martin and an ongoing multidisciplinary collaboration with Claire Zakiewicz, Petra Haller and Emily Suzanne Shapiro. Dance collaborations include Invisible Cities (2022) and Once up on a cube (premiered 2022; Totally Thames Festival, 2023), both with Scirocco Dance Theatre Company. Ouroboros, an installation/performance created in collaboration with Carla Rees, was first presented in 2024. Recordings include An Equal and Opposite Reaction (Linear Obsessional, 2019) and Sophie Stone’s Amalgamations (2022, Sawyer Editions).

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"Peter Nagle fares a little better, eking out a relatively spry melody from the cello he seems to be in the process of wrestling to the ground like a bear, one leg wrapped around the bout in a quasi-erotic entanglement."
- Robert Barry, review of The Text Score Dataset, Tempo April 2023
"draws elements of free improvisation, composition and sound art into a quiet vortex where restrained harmony amplifies into dry, hermetic mantras and the smallest of incidents are magnified to shattering proportions."
- Paul Margree, review of An Equal and Opposite Reaction, We Need No Swords
"Strong compositions, great playing, and packed with brow-furrowing themes of doubt, alienation and anxiety…what’s not to like?"
- Ed Pinsent, review of An Equal and Opposite Reaction, The Sound Projector
"Nuggets of pure gold... floating in a sea of shit." - Michael Finnissy
"Peter Nagle, cellist and (I think) composer." - Norman Lebrecht
"Left several things to be desired" - Musical Opinion
"Brooding Stillness and violent activity... successfully avoided the clichés" - Pauline Hall, the Guardian
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