Peter Birkby is a passionate composer, performer, arranger, musical director, publisher, manager and educator with over thirty years experience in the music industries. He writes for all musicians, from school age to professional, and for diverse audiences such as the Queen and passers-by. He is an active member of the musical community as percussionist and composer and recently he completed a PhD with composition and Light Music as the academic research area. As enthusiastic now about music and discovering individual combinations of sound as he was at the beginning of his career, he continues to develop opportunities for his works to reach new audiences.