Biography
Pete Ayres graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in Technical Theatre Arts, specialising in Lighting Design. He has worked extensively in the field of Contemporary Dance, designing for, amongst others, Adam Benjamin, Mark Bruce, Kate Flatt, Shobana Jayasing, Jennifer Jackson, Mavin Khoo, Rosemary Lee, Royston Maldoom, David Massingham, Tamara McLorg, Ashley Page, Ian Spink, Wolfgang Stange and Finn Walker, and in Jazz Dance, working with the likes of Kevan Allen, David Leighton and Paul Roberts of BPM, Gary Lloyd and Gareth Walker, and touring several times with the Jazz Dance Company. He has also designed the lighting for ballet, opera, drama, comedy, music concerts and music theatre.
Pete has designed in a variety of venues - from African amphitheatres, Berlin bus depots, Croatian castles and metropolitan motorways to nationally important playhouses such as The Royal Albert Hall, The Place and The South Bank (London), Schauspielhaus (Hamburg), The Cultural Centre, Kaunas (Lithuania), Addis Ababa City Hall (Ethiopia), The Shanghai Grand Theatre (China), Auditorio de Tenerife (Spain), and The National Theatre (Romania).
He has been involved in several Community Dance projects with hundreds of participants, ranging from street children of Peru and groups of mixed ability performers, to Senior Citizens of Germany and young women of immigrant families.
Orchestras with which Pete has worked include the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, China Anhui Traditional Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Duisburger Philharmoniker, Jungen Suddeutschen Philharmonie Esslingen, London Symphony Orchestra, Luxembourg Symphony Orchestra, MDR Sinfonieorchester (Leipzig), Oper der Stadt Köln, Russian National Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Opera House Orchestra, Sinfonieorchestra Camerata Schweiz, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, and Carnegie Hall, New York.
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Photos: "Voyage", London 1995; "Voices in the Dark", Croatia 2002; "Carmina Burana", Stuttgart 2013 (copyright Charlotte Fischer); "Across a Clear Blue Sky", Detmold 2008