Peter Butterfield

Peter Butterfield is a Canadian conductor and classical tenor. In 2003 he founded the VancouverVoices and since 2009 he has been the director of the Victoria Philharmonic Choir. As a singer he has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and North America; working primarily as a concert singer since the early 1980s. He has also appeared on radio and television programs in Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. He is married to mezzo-soprano Sarah Fryer.

Butterfield was raised in Victoria, British Columbia in a musical family (the tenor Benjamin Butterfield and the composer Christopher Butterfield are his brothers), and is a graduate of McGill University where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics and music. He did further voice studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and in Modena, Italy as a pupil of Arrigo Pola, the teacher of Luciano Pavarotti, and with Diane Forlano in London, England.

Butterfield made his professional debut as a concert soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in 1982. Since then he has been performing internationally. After moving to Europe in 1987 he continued to build his singing career in England and then in Italy. As a soloist he has appeared with The Bach Choir, the Bayreuth Festival Chorus with conductor Norbert Balatsch, the Monteverdi Choir under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and the Philharmonia Chorus. He has also appeared in operas, including appearances at the Teatro Comunale Florence, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, a portrayal of the title role in Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring at the Aldeburgh Festival, and in Cosi fan tutte, in London.

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