2022 - composer/arranger
JULIAN OVENDEN and SIERRA BOGGESS - With One Look
Arrangement for their latest album - https://vimeo.com/user22931741
2022 - composer/arranger
SOUTHBANK SINFONIA - Preparing for the Queen’s Jubilee Concert
Conducting “Hope and Glory” - https://vimeo.com/863938835?share=copy
2022 - composer/arranger
SOUND SPRING - Podcast
Discussing his composition “Hope and Glory” - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-soundspring-podcast-guided-musical-journeys/id1538224770?i=1000511360632
2022 - composer/educator
SINFONIA VIVA - Doorstep Delight
Composing over Zoom with choir during the pandemic - https://vimeo.com/667728174
2022 - composer/educator
GRANGE FESTIVAL - Space Age Farming
Collaboration with Grange Festival and WWF - https://vimeo.com/724840261
2022 - educator
NEWZROOM AFRIKA - Desmond Tutu Project Promotion
A live television interview - https://youtu.be/tobx9uRz3xA
2021 - composer/educator
STREETWISE OPERA - The Deer Rising
Composing a short opera with homeless people - https://vimeo.com/796613772
2021 - composer/educator
ANNE FRANK FOUNDATION and ENO - I Imagine That…
Composing a short opera with young people - https://vimeo.com/505253652
2021 - composer/educator
GRANGE FESTIVAL - Future Visions
Collaboration with Grange Festival and WWF for COP 26 - https://vimeo.com/610737972
2021 - composer/arranger
VASHI - Love Stories Promotion
Cinema and Television campaign - https://vimeo.com/633007401
2019 - PERFORMER
Blues and Roots Ensemble - Various Locations, UK
The ensemble performs across the UK - https://vimeo.com/344613403
2019 - EDUCATOR
The Cape Crusaders Reach Out
Extended highlights of Southbank Centre concert - https://vimeo.com/386701031
2019 - EDUCATOR
National Youth Jazz Orchestra - Various Locations, UK
Pete is engaged as an Associate Education Specialist with the orchestra - https://vimeo.com/329251757
2018 - EDUCATOR
Royal Opera House - Schools across the U.K.
“Create and Sing Carmen” - the flagship learning programme based on dramatic singing. https://vimeo.com/328661649
2018 - COMPOSER
English Touring Opera - Polka Theatre and Philharmonie Concert Hall Luxembourg
“This Is My Bed” - An opera for young people performed by members of English Touring Opera - https://vimeo.com/330125253
2017 - COMPOSER
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Pete’s audience participation piece is performed at the Royal Festival Hall - https://vimeo.com/329234911
2017 - EDUCATOR
Ronnie Scott’s Charitable Foundation
Legendary jazz drummer Billy Cobham talk about his experience working with Pete - https://vimeo.com/25271582
2016 - EDUCATOR
London Mayor’s Music Fund
Pete is given two hours to compose with a group of beginner instrumentalists.
They perform for the then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson - https://vimeo.com/332941692
2015 - Composer
Merton Music Foundation - Royal Albert Hall, UK
“Retro Radio”: a commission for the Merton Youth Jazz Orchestra - https://vimeo.com/327949528
2015 - EDUCATOR
English National Opera - Brixton Community Centre, UK
A project inspired by ENO’s production of “The Indian Queen” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmAO7liRhA
2014 - EDUCATOR
Aldeburgh Music - Snape Maltings Concert Hall, UK
Incorporating improvisation into the music of Benjamin Britten - https://vimeo.com/329251411
2014 - EDUCATOR
Songbound - Mumbai, India
Guest artist for a creative music project with children in Mumbai, India - https://vimeo.com/327903965
2013 - COMPOSER
Aldeburgh Music - Snape Maltings Concert Hall, UK
Pete Letanka composes and presents his composition “B.R.I.T.T.E.N” - https://vimeo.com/330526936
2013 - Presenter
Aldeburgh Music - Snape Maltings Concert Hall, UK
Pete Letanka conducts “Old Abram Brown” launching Aldeburgh Music’s “Friday Afternoons” project - https://vimeo.com/330304491
2013 - COMPOSER
Aldeburgh Music - Snape Maltings Concert Hall, UK
“Cuckoo’s Migration” - A commission to compose a response piece to Britten’s “Cuckoo” - https://vimeo.com/327914710
2013 - EDUCATOR
Aldeburgh Music - Snape Maltings Concert Hall, UK
Creating “Cuckoo’s Migration” - Pete Letanka teaches his composition in two schools - https://vimeo.com/330307318
2012 - EDUCATOR
Creative Arts School Trust - Finetown, South Africa
Pete Letanka is invited to work with poet Lemn Sissay and actor David Morrissey in a township in South Africa - https://vimeo.com/324166255
2012 - Performer
B-Side 45 - Various London clubs, UK
Pete Letanka joins an 8tet playing late 70s funk
https://vimeo.com/328652354 (Chain Reaction)
https://vimeo.com/329837360 (Hard to face the music)
https://vimeo.com/329834919 (TBC)
https://vimeo.com/329829355 (Sweetie Pie)
2011 - EDUCATOR
Casa da Musica - Casa da Musica, Portugal
Pete Letanka brings together various musical ensembles from across the city of Porto - https://vimeo.com/330013460 (Groove for the common man)
https://vimeo.com/330013705 (Dance of the Appalachians).
2011 - EDUCATOR
Aldeburgh Music - Snape Maltings Concert Hall, UK
Pete Letanka composes an opera with members of “Group A” - https://vimeo.com/330528342
2011 - EDUCATOR
Royal Opera House - Two-Tree Island, the Thames Estuary, UK
“The Snow Goose” - A project inspired by Paul Gallico’s book - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAQw5DiYFQ
2011 - EDUCATOR
Creative Arts School Trust - Tyre, Lebanon
A cross-arts project with actor David Morrissey.
2006 - Composer
HERMES: Roughwinds Production - Rosemary Branch Theatre, London, UK
A commission by poet Jehane Markham and actor Roger Lloyd-Pack to compose the musical “Hermes” -
https://vimeo.com/329241261 (Hermes)
https://vimeo.com/327928761 (Listen to the sea)
https://vimeo.com/327932337 (Zeus and Maia)
2005 - Performer
Zephyr Records - The Pete Letanka Trio, UK
Zephyr Records releases Pete Letanka’s debut album, “Afrostocracy” -
https://vimeo.com/330130463 (After you’ve gone)
https://vimeo.com/330132024 (God only knows)
2005 - Performer
Zephyr Records - BBC Radio Ulster, Ireland
The director of Zephyr Records discusses “Afrostocracy” with BBC Radio Ulster presenter, Walter Love - https://vimeo.com/321259529
2003 - Performer
Zephyr Records - Mike McKoy swings to the Bossa Nova, UK
Pete Letanka performs on “Mike McKoy swings to the Bossa Nova” with Bobby Wellins and Anthony Kerr - https://vimeo.com/330133462
2003 - Performer
La Caixa - The Balearic Islands, Spain
Silent movie accompaniment tour of Barcelona, Mallorca and Menorca.