Peter Skoggard is a composer, artist, dancer, actor, and poet living in Elora, Ontario. He has written chamber works, chamber operas, one musical, works for voice and piano, and choir, works performed in Elora, at the Guelph Spring Festival and River Run Centre, in Toronto at the Glenn Gould Studio, Cleveland, and New York.

His song cycles have set words and poetry, of John Donne, William Blake, Guillaume Apollinaire Maragaret Atwood, Thomas King, kateri akiwense-damm, R.A.D. Ford, Billy Collins, Jerry Prager, and Asa Boxer. He has set the Latin Mass for soloists, choir, and organ. One opera is based on a 14th Century Japanese Noh Drama. The other is based on the life of Teresa Stratas. He has written Roma: a piano quintet in seven movements.

Performers of his works include Bridget Hogan, Marion Samuel-Stevens, Kathy Domeny, Robert Missen, Tilly Kooyman, Cecile Denis, Christopher Burton, Irene Gregorio, Alexander Sevastian, Tony Quarington, Mino Ode Kwewak N’gamowak, David Earle, the Guelph Youth Singers, Via Salzburg, and the Penderecki String Quartet.