Peter Godfrey (choral conductor)

Peter David Hensman Godfrey CBE (3 April 1922 – 28 September 2017) was an English-born New Zealand choral conductor.

Born in Bluntisham in 1922, Godfrey began his musical career at age nine as a chorister in the King's College Chapel Choir at Cambridge University.

[1][2] After secondary school at Denstone College, he studied music at King's, where he was also a bass scholar in the choir.

[2] In 1989 he was invited to take up a two year position as Director of Music at Trinity College in Melbourne from 1990 to 1991.

[5] Godfrey had a significant influence on the development and growth of choral music in New Zealand.

[2] Godfrey was the grandfather of New Zealand jazz musician and broadcaster Nick Tipping.