Roger Peach studied music at Southampton University, gaining a BA (Hons) and LTCL (Performers). He then spent a year leading a Creative Team in Belgium with Operation Mobilisation, performing music and drama in churches, various community centres and on the streets. He has since taught music in various secondary schools. He has played and conducted at The Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican Centre. Since 1997 he has been the Director of Networks for Music & Worship Foundation. In that time he has led a number of workshops around the country, encouraging and training Christian musicians of all styles. He plays violin, piano and guitar, and has a particular desire to see instrumental gifts encouraged and used in church. He has been worship pastor at St Paul's, Salisbury, where he has led a worship group of singers and instrumentalists for a number of years. Before that he was choir director at St John's, Warminster. He is now starting a new job as Director of Music at St John the Baptist Church in Keynsham.
He has a strong interest in composing, heading up the MWF Sing a NEW Song project for new composers. He has had various worship songs published in Christian Music magazine; he has arranged many of the songs that have been published with the MWF national newsletter; and he has written a song featuring on an Ishmael recording. He has written two musicals: Where There's Hope was written for the school for dyslexic children where he taught for seven years. In 2002 he wrote a Christian musical The Return based on the story of the Prodigal Son, which is being performed at several locations around the UK. He has also recorded The Lord is my Light, some of his own psalm settings.
He is married to Fiona, a local family doctor; and has a son, Samuel.