ERIC PETER STEAD. After completing a degree in music at the University of Exeter and a PGCE at the University of Cambridge , Peter Stead worked as a musician and teacher in the UK . He moved to Singapore in 1989 following the completion of a Masters Degree in Music Education from Reading University . In Singapore he worked for the National Institute of Education as a Lecturer in Music and Music Education and as a freelance musician playing organ and trombone for the SSO and visiting orchestras. He has also worked extensively as a conductor and musical director. Credits include Musical Director of the International Festival Chorus, Musical Director for the Singapore Repertory Theatre's productions of Godspell, Into the Woods, and Sing to the Dawn and Chorus Master for the Lyric Opera Company.
From 1996 -1999 Peter Stead worked as a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Westminster College , Oxford , followed by two years gaining further experience of Asian education and culture in Thailand . He returned to Singapore in 2001. Other interests in include the psychology of the perception of sound, and the role of music in social, moral, cultural and spiritual education.
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