Dr. Nicholas Peters studied Music Composition with Dr. Christopher Hobbs at Coventry University, achieving a First Class BA (Hons) degree (2008), an MA with Distinction (2011), and a practice-based PhD in Sonic Art, which he passed without any formal amendments (2019). He holds an Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), and the diploma of Associate Fellow of the National College of Music and Arts, London (AFNCollM). Nicholas lectured in music at Coventry University from 2010 to 2022. He is an accredited sound and mantra therapist with the IPHM and runs sound baths for deep relaxation in Altrincham, Bowdon, Hale, and Sale.
He specialises in creating music designed to induce altered states of consciousness, required for undertaking shamanic journeying, inner focusing, and meditation. He produces singing bowl and sound bath compositions, short instrumental compositions, theatrical production music, electro-acoustic, experimental, and ambient tracks. His tracks ‘Dreams of the Deep (432 Hz)’ and ‘Contemplating Dhyana’ have been played on “The Sleeping Forecast” on BBC Radio 3 Unwind. His sound therapy releases include ‘Mindful Moments with Ancient Jambati Singing Bowl’, ‘Sound Bath for Mother Earth’, ‘Rain and Thunder Therapy’, ‘Sound Bath: Himalayan Singing Bowls and Rain’, and ‘Spirit of the Himalayas Shamanic Singing Bowl’.
His album “Frankenstein”, is a theatre soundtrack composed for a play of the same name, directed by OSCAR and BAFTA-nominated Animator-Director Barry J. C. Purves.
More information about his music is available on his website: www.nicholaspeters.co.uk