Peter Tregear

Peter Tregear (peter.tregear@unimelb.edu.au) is a principal fellow of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and an adjunct professor of the University of Adelaide. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and Cambridge University, he was subsequently appointed to a Fellowship in Music at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and from 2012 to 2015 was professor and head of the School of Music at the Australian National University. Research interests include Australian music history, opera in the Weimar Republic, Beethoven reception, and post-truth culture. Active also as a performer, critic, and arts commentator, he is the author of several books including: Ernst Krenek and the Politics of Musical Style (2013), Enlightenment or Entitlement: Rethinking Tertiary Music Education (2014), and Fritz Hart: An English Musical Romantic at the Ends of Empire (2024), co-authored with Anne-Marie Forbes.