Professor Peter Tregear is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge and Melbourne, and a former Fellow and Lecturer in Music at Cambridge. Active internationally as a scholar and performer, he held the post of Executive Director of the Academy of Performing Arts, Monash University and more recently Professor and Head of the ANU School of Music from 2012–2015. Peter is a recipient of a number of awards, including the Charles Mackerras Conducting Scholarship, a 'Green Room' award for 'best conductor, opera', and a Medal of the Order of Australia. He is the co-founder of The Consort of Melbourne, and IOpera. Academic interests include Weimar Republic music history, Australian music history, contemporary cultural politics, and the idea of a university, and he is also a regular contributor to arts pages of The Australian Book Review. In 2020 Peter was appointed the inaugural Director of Little Hall and holds honorary professorships in music at the Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide.
Experience
2018–present
Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne
2015–2017
Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London
2012–2015
Professor and Head of School, Australian National University
2010–2012
Executive Director , Monash University Academy of Performing Arts
2009–2010
Senior Advisor, Monash University
2006–2008
Dean, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
2000–2006
Fellow and Lecturer in Music, University of Cambridge
Education
2000
University of Melbourne, BA
1999
University of Cambridge, PhD
1994
University of Melbourne, MMus
1992
University of Melbourne, BMus (Hons)
Publications
2014
Enlightenment or Entitlement: Reflections on Tertiary Music Education, Currency House
2013
Ernst Krenek and the Politics of Musical Style, Scarecrow Press
2011
Schoenberg, Satire and the Zeitoper, The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg
2011
Anna Amalia: Erwin und Elmire (Critical Edition), Furore Verlag
2010
The Modern University and the Musical Mind: Sounding Out John Henry Newman, Mannix College
2007
For alle Menschen?: Classical Music and Remembrance after 9/11, Music in the Post-9/11 World
2002
The Ninth after 9/11, Beethoven Forum
2001
Fritz Hart and the ‘Celtic Twilight’ in Australia, he Literary Review
1999
Sounding Fascism: T. W. Adorno and the Political Susceptibility of Music, Renaissance and Modern Studies
1997
The Conservatorium of Music University of Melbourne: An Historical Essay to Mark its Centenary 1895-1995, Centre for Studies in Australian Music
Professional Memberships
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Research Areas
Musicology And Ethnomusicology (190409)
Music Performance (190407)
Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History) (210303)