In 1951, he thought about organizing a festival built around a chamber orchestra.
Spread over two years, the forum introduced six new compositions for chamber orchestra and four for full orchestra.
But it has had to be shared with the opera, the ballet, the chamber orchestra and the baroque ensemble.
It has been possible for our association to devote about £30,000 a year to keep this renowned chamber orchestra going and to allow it to expand.
On the way there will be pieces for violin and chamber orchestra and cello and chamber orchestra, but all including the ensembles from the earlier pieces.
Dialogues for piano and chamber orchestra, which followed a year later, is no less absorbing, with meditative moments - pauses for thought?
The wrong note played in the chamber orchestra after all is felt more keenly than the wrong note played in the symphony orchestra.
Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro acoustic music and composition.
