A native of Bournemouth, England, Peter Lea-Cox studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and received a London University Certificate in Education in 1967. From 1967 to 1972 he was Assistant Music Master at Oundle School, Northamptonshire, England. From 1973 to 1986 he was on the staff of the Royal Academy of Music where he taught choral conducting, sight-singing, harmony and other subjects. From 1973 to 1986, he was Director of Music at St. Jude-on-the-Hill Church in Hampstead Garden Suburb in London. He also served as organist at St. Mary-at-Hill Church in the City of London during that period.

From 1987 to 2004 Peter served as Cantor (Director of Music) at the Lutheran Church of St. Anne & St. Agnes in the City of London. At this historic church, built by Christopher Wren in 1680, he completed performances of all 220 Bach cantatas mostly in the monthly St. Anne’s Bach Vespers. With the Lecosaldi Ensemble, a group of professional singers and instrumentalists he founded and still directs, Peter presented many choral and orchestral works in concerts and services.

Peter is an accomplished recitalist who has given organ concerts in Britain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the United States. During August and September 2005, he makes his 19th recital tour of  Denmark. He has given organ recitals at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London as well as Washington’s National Cathedral. He has also performed as a soloist and with the Lecosaldi Ensemble at Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral. In October 2004, he gave the 27th annual recital in the distinguished Paul D. Wickre Memorial Concert Series at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has broadcast on Britain’s Radio Three as well as making recordings of organ and instrumental music.

Peter conducts the Camden Chamber Singers and other choral societies as well as serving as a tutor at the annual Oxford Baroque Week. He frequently leads workshops on major choral works for singers and instrumentalists. He also travels throughout Great Britain as an examiner for the Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music.

He has composed many vocal and instrumental works as well as compositions for organ. He uses the pseudonym "Lecosaldi" when composing in the baroque style of Handel and Telemann. He uses "Lea-Cox" when composing in a contemporary idiom.

Gillian Humphreys Lea-Cox, Peter’s wife who usually accompanies her husband on musical tours, is a soprano and a piano teacher who studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She is also an accomplished potter and cake decorator. Peter and Gilly live in rural Devon, England, in a thatched-roofed cottage built in 1560.