
Peter Spissky
Peter Spissky studied violin at the Music Academy in Bratislava (Slovakia) and the Music Academy in Malmö (Sweden). Since 1999 he has been a concertmaster in Concerto Copenhagen, recognized as one of Europe’s leading Baroque orchestras. Peter Spissky is the musical director of Camerata Øresund, an ensemble made up of the new generation of early musicians based in Copenhagen/Malmö. As a guest concertmaster/conductor, he appears regularly with Barokkanerne (Norway), Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Jönköping Sinfonietta (Sweden), Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra (Finland), and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. As a violinist, he performs in Barokksolistene (Oslo), Solamente naturali (Bratislava) and Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. Peter Spissky teaches baroque violin at the Malmö Academy of Music and The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and gives Master Classes all around Scandinavia. In 2017 Peter successfully defended his doctoral thesis ‘Ups and Downs, Violin Bowing as Gesture’, at Lund University, receiving a PhD degree in Music and Arts. In September 2022 Peter Spissky was appointed artistic director of the Confidencen Opera & Music Festival in Stockholm.