Peter Brathwaite is an acclaimed baritone, based in the UK and performing internationally. He is noted for his versatile, charismatic and intelligent performances. His 2024/25 season includes principal roles at La Monnaie de Munt, the Royal Opera House, New Music Days Ostrava, and he will return to the University of Oxford to be resident as a Distinguished Visitor.

Most recent seasons have included roles at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Philharmonie de Paris, the Opéra national de Lorraine, and the Théâtre de Caen, as well as an artist residency with Britten Pears Arts, Aldeburgh. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music (DMus) degree from his alma mater, Newcastle University, in July 2023.

He was commissioned by Kensington Palace | Historic Royal Palaces to create a new Rediscovering Black Portraiture work for the 2024 exhibtion Untold Lives: A Palace at Work. A solo exhibition of his work was on view at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery from April to September 2023. His work can be seen at Barbados Museum & Historical Society, the National Portrait Gallery, London, Museum Hof van Busleyden, Belgium, and Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.

He writes and presents for BBC Radio 3 and his first book, Rediscovering Black Portraiture, was published by Getty Publications in Spring 2023. He is currently writing a family history of Barbados, which Chatto & Windus (a division of Vintage at Penguin Random House) will publish in 2026/27.