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Peter Hills |
This page was first published in November 2006
Peter has been singing in the first tenor section since 2004. He is an experienced choral singer and belongs to a mixed choir in Ashford. He sang with a male voice choir in Germany in the early 1980s and once belonged to a barbershop quartet. He has performed as a soloist in opera and oratorio, with over thirty roles since 1964 and still takes occasional solo roles. The choir sometimes benefits from his experience as a soloist.
Peter is a native of the Isle of Sheppey and trained as a teacher, teaching in Kent and Sussex before joining the Royal Army Education Corps. He served in Northern Ireland and Germany as well as the UK and retired in the rank of Major after sixteen years. He then trained in Cambridge as a Methodist minister and returned to the army as a chaplain in 1991, seeing service in Cyprus, Bosnia, Germany, Macedonia, Kosovo and Canada. He was a minister in Sevenoaks until September 2010, when he retired and moved to Tenterden.
He came to the choir through his work as a police chaplain in West Kent, where the police area commander was our chairman at the time. He is now chaplain to our Police Headquarters and the Police College. He is also an ambulance chaplain and a visiting chaplain to Westminster Abbey.
Peter's other interests include walking, reading, and watching films.