Peter Roennfeldt performs regularly with period instrument and vocal ensembles. His long association with baroque music includes direction of the Cantilena Singers during the 1990s and various Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University ensembles in the early 2000s. In addition to preparing much symphonic repertoire as chorusmaster with the Brisbane Chorale in the 1980s, Peter has directed major works including Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Messiah, Bach’s B Minor Mass  and St John Passion, Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri and numerous smaller works by these composers as well as Zelenka, Charpentier, Lalande, Schütz and Rosenmüller. In addition Peter has directed several baroque operas, including Handel’s Semele and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas for the Conservatorium Opera School. A special interest has been the chamber operas of Charpentier, which he introduced to Brisbane audiences starting in 1994 with Les plaisirs de Versailles and ten years later for the composer’s tercentenary, Les Arts Florissants. Peter is also founder-director of Soirées Musicales Quintette, which since 2015 has performed a wide range of romantic-era solo and ensemble vocal repertoire, mostly in heritage venues. With the recently-formed flexible ensemble Peter Roennfeldt and Friends, he also presents period instrument performances of baroque sacred vocal and instrumental music, as well as romantic era chamber music with his historic Viennese fortepiano dating from 1843. A graduate of Queensland and Adelaide universities, Peter studied in the USA in Boston and Cincinnati, gaining a Doctor of Musical Arts. For over thirty years he lectured at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, serving also as Director for seven years and currently as Emeritus Professor. Peter’s research specialty is Queensland’s musical heritage. He has published numerous articles and seven books including histories of the Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane Chorale, Queensland Music Teachers’ Association, Brisbane’s Albert Hall, UQ’s Mayne Hall, and a biography of Madame Mallalieu. He also regularly presents specially themed programs for 4MBS Classic FM.