Peter Donohoe CBE (born 18 June 1953) is an English classical pianist. 　　Peter Donohoe was born in Manchester, England and educated at Chetham's School of Music where he studied violin, viola, clarinet and tuba.Donald Clarke recommended that Donohoe do an audition at the age of 14 at the Royal Manchester College of Music, as a result, professor Derek Wyndham insisted on taking him as his youngest student. Donohoe continued to work with Wyndham throughout the rest of his schooldays, and then went on to study music with Alexander Goehr at the University of Leeds. Later he returned to Manchester to continue working at the Royal Northern College of Music with Professor Wyndham, graduating in 1976 as BMus with first class honours in both piano and percussion as both teacher and performer.