2007
sees the start of a new project with Peter Corser (alto and tenor
saxophones, clarinet, la- mbis, flutes, percussion, objects, voice),
Labyala
Nosfell (voice, electro- nics),
Médéric Collignon (cornet,
handsonic, key- board, voice, electronics, objects) and
Pierre
Le Bourgeois (cello, electro- nics). Peter leads a quartet at
Mens Alors Festival with Collignon, Poulsen and Gleizes. He looks into
soundpainting with musicians from Surnaturel orchestra. He does several
concerts with Harom Settin’ as well as his usual collaborations with
Adjabel and Improfessionals and some solo concerts.
The quartet
Duneberry
with Peter Corser,
Médéric Collignon (cornet,
saxhorn, voix, electronics),
Hasse Poulsen (guitar) and
Philippe Gleizes
(drums) plays for the first time at Point Ephémère in Paris, Sept.
2006. In october Peter plays with The Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra
including
Paul Dunmall (sax),
Bruce Coates (sax),
Trevor
Lines (bass),
Paul Rutherford (trombone),
Mike Hurley (keyboard),
Jamie Smith (guitar) and
Roger
Telford (drums) in Birmingham, England. Peter works regularly
with
The Improfessionals, a theatre
improvisation group that combines theatre with music. In december Peter
plays with singer and guitarist
Nosfell
and Pierre Lebourgeois (cello, bass) at Le Centre Pompidou, Paris.

January
2006 sees the start of the Blackberry Project with Peter
Corser and
Emiliano Turi at L'Olympic Café
involving a series of 6 concerts with 12 different guests:
Marc Baron (sax),
Loic
Blairon (cb),
Denis Charolles (drums),
Bruce Coates (sax),
Gilles Coronado (guitar),
Max Delpierre (guitar),
Fred
Gastard (sax),
Pierre Lebourgeois (cello),
Hasse
Poulsen (guitar),
Guillaume Roy (viola),
Franck Smith (electronics) and
Alain Vankenove
(trumpet). Each concert consists of 2 trios, featuring a different
guest each time. An improvised Big Band is performed at Lavoir Moderne
Parisien in July bringing everybody together. A series of audio and
video recordings documents the project.
Peter works regularly with Haan group
Adjabel
lead by Atissou Loko (percussion) with Gillian Mambo (percussion),
Rico
Kerridge (guitar) and previously
Jackson
Thélémaque (guitar). Peter recorded as a guest on singer and
guitarist
Nosfell's second album, Kalin Bla
Lemsnit Dunfel Labyanit.

Peter's solo
tenor saxophone album, 'Breathing Out', is released in the summer of
2004
on
FMR
records. In May
2005 he recorded a free
improvisation CD with
Frans Fuchs on double bass and
Emiliano Turi on drums. In April
he recorded a CD with
Xavier Roux
on electric and accoustic turntables, recently released on their new
label. He has just finished a circular breathing CD masterclass for the
US magazine
'Saxophone Journal', with
Laurent David on electric bass and
Bertrand
Perrin on drums which will be included in the Nov/Dec
2005
edition. He is involved or has been involved with a number of theatre,
dance, film and multi-média projects: Actress/dancer
Claire-Monique
Scherer's show, '100/2587 gestes jetés; Anne Niederstadt's
and Periklis Douvitsas'
Improvisations-
werkstatt in Berlin; He worked with
Michel
Schick on the music for a short film based on the play Orgie
by Pier Paolo Pasolini, directed by
Gael
Massé>; Actress Laetitia Angot's reading of 'Trés
Grande Surface' by André Benchetrit; Photographer
Patrick
Bonnets slide show project 'Matière à la mémoire de Forme';
Graphic artist and film maker
Jean-Louis Crudenaire's film,
"Nuages
en Compagnie"; Singer and designer
Betina
Betzers boobtibet project. He has played regularly with
roots-rock group
'Adjabel'; with cellist,
Pierre Lebourgeois and with singer
and double bass player,
Elise Dabrowski

In the summer
of 2000
Peter wrote a lengthy composition in 9 parts, combining written ele-
ments with long, open improvisations, presented live at l'Olympic
CafParis, in November 2001 with Emmanuel Brunet on
double bass and Bertrand Perrin on drums. In May 2002
they played at the 'Jazz Nomades' Festival, Paris. In March 2000
he recorded 7 jazz-based compositions entitled 'Circular Way', with
Etienne Cauchemez on double bass and Clément Abraham on drums. The
title track marked the beginning of an exploration into circular
breathing. In 1998 he composed and produced
'Finding The Time',
with Joel Gauvrit on piano, Stane Benveniste on double bass and
Bertrand Perrin on drums. It included 8 compositions mixing jazz, funk
and reggae elements. For 2 years Peter played regularly in Paris at
Opus Jazz and Soul Club, China Club, Café Charbon, Bar les Couleurs,
Dahlia Noir, Sunset, La Balle au Bond, L'Entrepôt, Le Pataquès Studio
des Islettes, L'Apostrophe, Bar Antenne B, Les Trois Arts, Café
Universel et Les Broches 'Ancienne.

Born and
brought up in England, Peter arrived in France in 1995
and played in the streets and metro stations of Paris. He performed in
the theatre show "Scenes Du Nouveau Monde", joined the jazz funk group
'La Cave' and from 1997 spent three years playing
with 'Adjabel'. In 1994
he obtained a BA degree in Performing Arts, majoring in modern music at
DeMontford University, Leicester, England. After leaving school at 18
he spent an influential six months in India. At 11 he began to play the
clarinet and the guitar. Later, the piano and at 18, the tenor
saxophone.