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Born 1978.

Dutch conductor.

Peter Dijkstra studied choral conducting, orchestral conducting and voice at the conservatories of The Hague, Cologne and Stockholm. Among his awards was first prize in the 2003 Eric Ericson competition in Stockholm, which launched his international career.  He performs a broad range of repertoire, from early music to premieres of new commissions, from a cappella works to opera.

From 2005 to 2016 he was Artistic Director of the Choir of Bavarian Radio in Munich. Since 2007 he has also been Music Director of the Swedish Radio Choir. In 2015 he became Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Choir. He was appointed Professor of Choral Conducting at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik and is first guest conductor of the Dutch Radio Choir.

He is an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Music Academy and was presented with the Golden Violin 2013 (an award for internationally successful Dutch musicians) and the Eugen Jochum Prize in 2014.