Peter Joyce

Peter Joyce (1990) is an Irish musician, conductor and composer whose musical identity has been strongly developed by his early experiences with jazz, his vigorous training in Viennese Classicism and Modernism and his ongoing passion for contemporary music and experimental as well as traditional musical theatre. He is a music graduate of Trinity College Dublin where he began composing, arranging and conducting, later studying conducting with Dr. Geoffrey Spratt at CIT Cork School of Music. Peter continued his musical education by studying conducting with Mark Stringer and composition with Detlev Müller-Siemens at the renowned University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and has capped it off in masterclasses with Peter Eötvös, Marin Alsop, Sian Edwards, Salvatore Sciarrino and Stefano Gervasoni among many others. Winner of the 1st Prize and Orchestra Prize of the 2023 Irish National Feis Ceoil Conducting Competition, Peter Joyce has worked in symphonic, musical theatre, choral settings and opera including his debut in the Golden Hall of Vienna’s Musikverein with the Akademische Philharmonie Vienna, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Białystok, Wiener Symphoniker, Pro-Arte Orchestra Vienna, Orchestra of the Technical University Vienna, Max Brand Ensemble, Ensemble Ars Nova, the Webern Ensemble and the Webern Chamber Choir, and with the ORF as a musical assistant for live broadcasts from the Vienna State Opera. Peter is the founder and conductor of the Esker Festival Orchestra, an orchestras for emerging young professional musicians. He has performed and conducted premieres of many new works by Irish and international composers. As a composer Peter's own works have been performed throughout Europe by groups such as the Arditti Quartet, Quartetto Prometeo, the Kandinsky Quartet, the Webern Ensemble, Platypus Ensemble and at festivals such as Wien Modern. In 2020 he was the winner of the Feis Ceoil IMRO Composition Award.