
Peter Batchelar
Peter studied guitar at the RNCM with Gordon Crosskey and John Williams. He was one of the first guitarists to join Yehudi Menuhin’s Live Music Now and played for over 10years in the Aguado Guitar Duo. Peter has worked with Opera North over many years.
Peter has been at the forefront of new developments in guitar teaching for over 20years, firstly helping to develop the EGTA Chanterelle series and then co-authoring a completely redesigned ABRSM guitar syllabus in 2009 which included several new books, their first for guitar. More recently Peter has worked on the current 2019 syllabus.
He has been a senior lecturer at Leeds College of Music since 2004, and an External Examiner at the RNCM since 2009.