He is a trombonist and conductor who has been a member of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, The English Baroque Soloists, The Philharmonia Orchestra, The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble. The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and also appeared as a soloist.
As a conductor he has been the music director of the Sussex Trombone Society aka The Giant Safety Pins, and the ten-piece Harveys Brass which is instrumentally based on the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
Making numerous recordings he has appeared on American Music for Brass, Bernstein Narrates Bernstein: The Holocaust Remembered, Symphonic Music of Yes by Bill Bruford, Family Carols by The Bach Choir and a series of Bach’s Cantatas recorded with the English Baroque Soloists and led by Sir John Gardiner.
Here is the first part of the “Theme from Manhole” sung by Grace Slick which Peter performed on…
Sources:
- http://www.trombone-society.org.uk/news/2006/09/19/
- http://www.amazon.com/American-Music-Brass-Peter-Harvey/dp/B000002ZQ2/ref=sr_1_11/104-9219852-1218347?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1190054204&sr=8-11
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/1554675-Peter-Harvey-2
- http://www.musicabona.com/harvey_peter/cd/3.html.en
- http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/schoenberg/as_disco/names/groups/philharm.htm
- http://www.historicbrass.org/TheStacks/News/NewsArchive/News2006/tabid/221/Default.aspx
- http://www.tentet.org.uk/
- http://www.brassworks4.com/composers.html
- http://www.orchestra18c.com/orchestra.html