Peter Kenvyn Jones was educated at the King’s School in Worcester and Manchester University where he graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) and B.A. (Music), and conducted the University Chorus and Orchestra.

He became the senior chorister at Worcester Cathedral where he studied under Sir Ivor Atkins, Sir David Willcocks and Sir Douglas Guest, singing at many Three Choirs Festivals and being involved in premieres by some of this country’s greatest composers such as Herbert Howells, Gerald Finzi, Howard Ferguson and Kenneth Leighton. He created the boy’s narration in the first performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ beautiful Christmas cantata Hodie.

He also trained for the theatre at The Drama Centre, London and has subsequently had a busy and varied professional life with credits in Film, TV, the West End and the London and Edinburgh fringes. His voice will be well-known to BBC Radio 4 listeners, for he was for some years in the long-running soap-opera The Archers.

The combination of music and theatre has meant that he has been involved as composer, producer and musical director in many of our Regional Theatres where he has also acted. He has been a member of the Colchester Mercury Theatre Company.

He has sung with, and conducted several major choral societies, including Derby Choral Union, the Ealing Choral Society and London Concert Choir. Some of these have given first performances of his choral works.

In addition to his performing dates, he has taught and directed in many of London’s accredited Drama Schools, including the Opera School of the Royal College of Music. His company Artafax has recently sponsored a local schools’ tour of Elikem, the Ghanaian cultural group. He moved to Clacton in 2002 from where he pursues a busy career. In his spare time, such as it is, he sings with the University of Essex Choir and supports Arsenal Football Club, for whose house magazine he is a regular contributor.