Peter John Bacchus (1954–2016) earned a bachelor’s degree from SUNY-Purchase (United States). He was a chamber music scholar at the Yale School of Music, and composition scholar at the Aspen Festival and the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau (France). He received a Master’s Degree in Teaching from CUNY Lehman College. He studied composition with John Corigliano and Narcís Bonet.
Peter Bacchus, a versatile flautist, composer and arranger, played as a flute soloist with the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Teatre Lliure Chamber Orchestra and the Catalan Chamber Orchestra. He also regularly performed in the United States, his home country, and in several European countries. He made several CD recordings of his own compositions and as a performer, and he worked in different fields, from music for television to theatre and “classical” music. Among other things, he performed as a musical director at the Poliorama Theatre in the musical comedy “Cal dir-ho”, directed by Josep Maria Flotats. He was an artistic instructor at the international festival of the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati (USA) and the Opera Theatre of Lucca in Italy.
He moved to Barcelona in the 80s, where he was a great lover and defender of Catalan culture, and lived there until his early death in 2016.