Peter Burt

Peter Burt was born in London and studied music in the UK at the universities of York, London, and Durham, where he obtained his PhD with a dissertation on the music of Toru Takemitsu in 1998. Subsequently he travelled to Japan to research further materials for a book on the composer, published as 'The Music of Toru Takemitsu' in 2001, and has since published a number of articles on music in various periodicals. He currently divides his time between Vienna, where he is an associate lecturer for the Open University, and Mikulov na Moravě in the Czech Republic.

In recent years he has also occasionally devoted himself to the making of fictions, and published a set of short stories under the collective title 'Fables' in 2007. At the moment he is working on a sequel to the collection, called 'Confessions', planned for release in 2012.