{{Short description|English organist (born 1965)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Peter Dyke''' (born 11 March 1965) is an English organist. A Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, he has recorded several albums either as a soloist or accompanist, including three for Regent Records and one for Priory Records.
== Career == Dyke was organ scholar of Robinson College, Cambridge<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/college-life/music/organ-awards|title=Organ Awards|access-date=2017-04-06|website=www.robinson.cam.ac.uk |publisher=Robinson College (University of Cambridge)|language=en}}</ref> and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists in 1987.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.herefordcathedral.org/assistant-director-of-music|title=Assistant Director of Music|website=www.herefordcathedral.org|access-date=2017-04-01|language=en}}</ref> He then became the organist of St Helen's Church, Wheathampstead. Dyke remained at St Helen's until 1992, at which point he moved to St Woolos' Cathedral, Newport, serving there as assistant organist.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web | url=http://www.herefordchoralsociety.org/accompanists.php | title=Accompanists of Hereford Choral Society | website=www.herefordchoralsociety.org | access-date=2017-04-01 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115052919/http://www.herefordchoralsociety.org/accompanists.php | archive-date=2017-01-15 | url-status=dead }}</ref> While at Newport, Dyke entered the interpretation competition at the 1993 St Albans International Organ Festival, co-winning second place.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.organfestival.com/St_Albans_International_Organ_Festival/ewExternalFiles/IOF%20at%2050.pdf| title=The IOF @ 50| last=Bennett|first=Jill|date=June 2013|website=www.organfestival.com |publisher=St Albans International Organ Festival|page=24 |access-date=2017-04-06}}</ref>
From 1995 to 1998, Dyke held the organ scholarship at St Albans Cathedral,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stalbanseca.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016-ECA-Members-Year-Book.pdf|title=Members' Year Book 2016|date=October 2016|website=www.stalbanseca.org |publisher=St Albans Cathedral Ex-Choristers Association|page=30|access-date=2017-04-06}}</ref> after which he moved to Hereford Cathedral. He now serves at Hereford as its assistant director of music. In addition to his regular duties there, Dyke accompanies the cathedral choir during its various broadcasts and tours, as well as at the annual Three Choirs Festival. The cathedral's Voluntary Choir was founded by him in 2000.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.herefordcathedral.org/voluntary-choir|title=Voluntary Choir| website=www.herefordcathedral.org|date=6 June 2016 | language=en|access-date=2017-03-05}}</ref>
Dyke produced a series of "audio diaries" that were broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in 2005. Called ''Bach Walks'', the series showed him following (by car) the 260-mile route J.S. Bach walked from Arnstadt to Lübeck to meet Dietrich Buxtehude.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2005/23-december/gazette/following-bach|author=staff writer |title=Following Bach|website=www.churchtimes.co.uk|date=2 November 2006 |access-date=2017-03-05}}</ref>
Dyke's carol ''Three Kings'' was published by Encore in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.encorepublications.com/publications.shtml| title=Publications|website=www.encorepublications.com|access-date=2017-03-05}}</ref>
== Discography == {| class="wikitable sortable" !scope=col|Year !scope=col|Title !scope=col style="width: 100px;" |Role !scope=col style="width: 150px;" |Choir !scope=col|Record label !scope=col|Catalog No. |- || 1993 || ''Dvořák: Mass in D Major / Elgar: Te Deum and Benedictus'' || align=center | Accompanist || align=center |Dyfed Choir|| align=center |Alpha || align=center |CDCA 954 |- || 1996 || ''J.S. Bach: Organ Mass'' || align=center | Soloist || align=center | n/a || align=center |Lammas || align=center |LAMM 092D |- || 1997 || ''Praise and Majesty'' || align=center | Accompanist || align=center |St. Alban's Cathedral Choir|| align=center |Lammas || align=center |LAMM 095D |- || 2005 || ''Sounds Idyllic'' || align=center | Soloist || align=center | n/a || align=center |Lammas || align=center |LAMM 148D |- || 2005 || ''William Byrd: Anthems, Motets & Services'' || align=center | Accompanist || align=center |Hereford Cathedral Choir || align=center |Griffin || align=center |GCCD 4048 |- || 2009 || ''Howells from Hereford'' || align=center | Accompanist || align=center |Hereford Cathedral Choir || align=center |Regent || align=center |REGCD316 |- || 2010 || ''Great European Organs No. 80: The Organ of Hereford Cathedral'' || align=center | Soloist || align=center | n/a || align=center |Priory || align=center |PRCD1029 |- || 2012 || ''Christmas from Hereford'' || align=center | Accompanist || align=center |Hereford Cathedral Choir || align=center |Regent || align=center |REGCD388 |- || 2016 || ''Easter Day at Hereford'' || align=center | Accompanist || align=center |Hereford Cathedral Choir || align=center |Regent || align=center |REGCD478 |- |}
Dyke provides accompaniment for three of the 20 tracks on the 1997 Lammas recording.
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==External links== *[http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?ct=&pag=&indx=1&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A(BLCONTENT)&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1491080550806&ct=NextPage&mode=Basic&vl(488279563UI0)=creator&indx=21&vl(1423900464UI1)=all_items&vl(freeText0)=%20Dyke%2C%20Peter%2C%201965-&vid=BLVU1&fn=search Listing of recordings registered at the British Library] * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/bach/downloads.shtml BBC webpage for ''Bach Walks''] *{{discogs artist}} *{{allMusic|artist/peter-dyke-mn0001671416}} {{authority control}}
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