Congratulations to Professor Peter Tregear who has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours this year for service to music education, and to professional organisations. Professor Tregear is a longtime Trustee of the AMF UK and also the Founding Chair of the AMF Australia Foundation.

Peter Tregear studied at the University of Melbourne and at King’s College Cambridge. In 2000 he was appointed a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge where he was Lecturer and Director of Music.

He returned to Australia in 2006 as Dean of Trinity College, University of Melbourne and in November 2010 he was appointed Executive Director of the Academy of Performing Arts, Monash University. In August 2012 he was appointed Professor and Head of the School of Music of the Australian National University. In 2015 he returned to the UK to a Teaching Fellowship at Royal Holloway, University of London, and in 2020 he took up the position of Dean of St Mark's College, Adelaide. He continues to work in both Australia and in Europe as a singer, conductor, and writer.