| Biography | Peter Crompton studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and graduated with honours and a prize for organ performance. Subsequently, he went on to St Katharines College, Liverpool where he undertook his post graduate study and organ lessons with the celebrated organist of Liverpool Cathedral, Noel Rawsthorne. Peter Crompton has been Director of Music since 1984 at the Royal Hospital School.
Peter Crompton first performed at the Royal Albert Hall; in 1997, when he conducted the Royal Hospital School Choir and played the organ at the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance and has subsequently played the organ for this festival each year. He runs the Choral and Orchestral Societies of the school and is a former President of the Suffolk Organists Association. He also adjudicates regularly at school music competitions and in particular, the House Singing competition which are so much part of the independent school tradition.
He regularly directs the choirs at the Annual National Service for Seafarers in St Pauls Cathedral, conducting amongst other works, anthems commissioned especially for this service by distinguished composers. Peter Crompton has conducted the chapel choir on many tours abroad most notably at St Marks - Venice, Salzburg Cathedral, Barcelona Cathedral, Notre Dame, Monaco Cathedral and St Peters Basilica in Rome.
He has broadcast on BBC radio and television and made several recordings, one of which was recently the critics choice in the CD review programme on BBC Radio 3.
A particular satisfying time for Peter was the opening of the new Music School by the famous composer John Rutter. Having conducted the choir in the annual carol service, Dr Rutter invited the choir to perform three concerts with him and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra which took place at the Royal Albert Hall and the Regent Theatre in Ipswich. John Rutter is now the patron of the School Music Society. |