Peter Michael Davison is a composer, orchestrator and conductor working across feature film, television, AAA games and live performance.
Most recently, Peter has been one of the lead composers for Jagex’s RuneScape: DragonWilds, creating music for the latest entry in the iconic RuneScape franchise, available across PC and major console platforms, including PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch 2.
Peter has collaborated with some of the industry’s leading composers and filmmakers, including John Powell, contributing additional music and orchestrations to Illumination’s Migration, and serving as lead orchestrator on Richard Curtis’ That Christmas. He has also collaborated extensively with Danny Elfman on his concert repertoire, including Percussion Concerto and Wunderkammer, released by Sony Classical.
His game credits include RuneScape: DragonWilds, Family Guy: Warped Kart Racers, Horizon Zero Dawn, Horizon Forbidden West and Manor Lords, spanning composing, orchestration and conducting on internationally recognised titles. He is also composing the score for Feltopia, the debut game from acclaimed stop-motion animator Andrea Love, with sound and Foley by Skywalker Sound in the United States.
As a conductor, Peter works regularly in London’s recording studios with leading orchestras, composers and musicians. His recent conducting and orchestration credits include Lear Rex, directed by Bernard Rose (Candyman), alongside recording sessions for the Horizon series, BBC’s Casualty, and numerous film, television and game scores.
Alongside his studio work, Peter is an active concert conductor and composer. His Violin Concerto: A Christmas Fantasy was recently performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers, featuring violinist Charles Mutter. He continues to conduct orchestral performances and recording sessions throughout the UK and internationally, including with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak National Symphony Orchestra and Budapest Scoring Orchestra.
Peter is also Artistic Director of the Brighton & East Sussex Youth Orchestra, with whom he has enjoyed a long-standing relationship spanning more than two decades, helping to inspire and develop the next generation of young musicians.
His film and television credits also include the BBC documentary The Stormtrooper Scandal, ITV’s WACO Untold: The British Stories, Channel 5 and Milkshake!’s A Right Royal Sprout, Strike!, and Andrea Love’s acclaimed stop-motion short Tulip.
Peter brings together composing, orchestration and conducting with a collaborative approach developed across film, television, games and the concert platform. Equally at home leading recording sessions, collaborating with world-class composers or creating original musical identities for new productions, he has built a reputation as a versatile and trusted creative partner for directors, producers and developers.
Peter is represented worldwide by Air-Edel Associates.