PETER DASENT is a composer, songwriter, pianist and music arranger/director.

He has composed music for film and television (including three early Peter Jackson films), led his own ensemble The Umbrellas for 30 years, written songs for kids (Justine Clarke’s platinum-selling children’s albums) and has played piano for the long-running ABC-TV children’s show Play School since 2000.

Peter was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1954 and learned piano from age 8, discovering the Beatles and other classic s