Peter Neville is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts where he was appointed Head of Percussion in 2000. Whilst he works across the range of musical styles he has a particular commitment to new music.
As percussionist of the Elision Ensemble for twenty years, Peter has been involved with practically all their concerts, compact discs, and international tours. With Elision he has premiered works written specially for him including Chris Dench's Driftglass for percussion and ensemble and Richard Barrett's Abglanzbeladen-Auseinandergeschrieben. Peter is also a member of Jouissance, the David Chesworth Ensemble and SPEAK Percussion and has recorded and toured internationally with each of them.
His orchestral work has included tours to Europe with the Australian Youth Orchestra and Japan with the Melbourne Symphony. With the MSO he also took part in the Australian premiere of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony, in the presence of the composer, and in their Australian tour with Elton John.
He has performed in numerous musicals, including West Side Story, Cats and Company and three Australian tours of the Broadway version of The Pirates of Penzance. He toured Australia as musical director of Tap Dogs. Other theatrical tours have included the Australia/China tour of Playbox Theatre's Cho-Cho-San, and Richard the Third with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Within ballet orchestras he has participated in performances by the Bolshoi Ballet, the Russian State Ballet, the Nureyev Farewell Tour and the Netherlands Dance Theatre. With Human Veins Dance Theatre he took part in the Australian premieres of Iannis Xenakis' Oresteia, and was also guest drummer with the Balanescu Quartet in their three Australian seasons of Possessed with the Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre.
Peter Neville appears on CD recordings ranging from pop albums by Peter Andre to the experimental industrial album New Maps of Hell by sound artist Paul Schutze. He is one of the main performers on the album Hoy! (with Barrie Webb and Eugene Ughetti).

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