Ricardo Peach

Dr Ricardo Peach is the Executive Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) in Townsville-Gurambilbarra, North Queensland. The Australian Festival of Chamber Music is a unique, internationally acclaimed event presenting a 10 day program of over 30 concerts and special events.

He is on the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University’s Industry Advisory Board and the School Council for Pimlico High School.

Previously he was the Director of the Vrystaat Kunstefees/Arts Festival/Tsa-Botjhaba, a multi-artform Afrikaans language festival in Mangaung, South Africa, that forges links with Sesotho and English cultures.

He was also the Co-director of the Programme for Innovation in Artform Development (PIAD) at the University of the Free State and a Founding Director of the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE).

In 2017 he was appointed by the Minister of Arts and Culture as a Council member of the William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberley, Northern Cape. He was a board member of ASSITEJ South Africa theatre for young audiences and a founding member of the Sustaining Theatre and Dance Foundation (STAND), South Africa.