In the United States he has worked in music festivals at Aspen, Interlochen, Musicorda, Idyllwild, and in New York.
Ireland trained at the Idyllwild Arts Foundation in Idyllwild, California, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Hartt School, a performing-arts conservatory at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Active as a composer, conductor and double bassist, Peter Askim is currently the Music Director and Composer-in-Residence of the Idyllwild Arts Academy.
Bachelor of Arts | National Science Foundation | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Master of Arts | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | Electronic Arts | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts | California Institute of the Arts | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | martial arts | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Academy of Fine Arts | Beaux-Arts architecture | Mixed martial arts | Museum of Fine Arts | Arts and Crafts movement |