Peter Glyn Steadman holds a Certificate in Education from Westminster College and the University of Oxford, and a BA (ad eundem) from Oxford Brookes University. He was raised in the Anglican Church music tradition of English parish churches, before becoming an Alto Scholar of the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, under Gordon Reynolds. He attended the then Hampton Grammar School (now Hampton School) from 1965 to 1973. While studying in Oxford he sang as an alto in the Chapel Choirs of Exeter College, under Richard Vendome, and of Methodist Westminster College.
Peter returned to Hampton Court as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and continued to sing in ad hoc choirs in and around London. Switching to singing tenor, while at Leatherhead Parish Church he produced arrangements for the choir there, and also sang with the St Peter's Singers at St Peter's Church, Vauxhall, under Will Fraser and Daniel Moult. Peter has been involved in running the weekly lunchtime concert series Music on Thursdays at Leatherhead Methodist Church, which he co-founded with Graham Davies in 2012 and has run since 2014. These concerts give opportunities for Royal Academy of Music students to present music to a regular audience, while at the same time bringing musical performance of the highest standard to the town of Leatherhead, at an accessible time of day. Former students of London's conservatoires and music departments and some locally-based performers of the same calibre also take part in the concert series.
A fluent French speaker, and speaker or reader of other European languages, his adjustments to English wikipedia entries tend to be based on material borrowed from other languages, or on holding or researching musical works that correct an existing statement, often relating to dating.