Career
Mooney was to serve as the conductor of the Glasgow Phoenix Choir until his death 28 years later. As Principal of Music at Hamilton Academy, Mooney conducted the school’s choirs. Under Peter Mooney’s baton, Hamilton Academy’s (mixed) Choir issued recordings and appeared on British radio and television programmes and performed internationally.
In 1968 Peter Mooney and the Academy’s choir undertook a tour of North America that included performances at the White House, Washington, United States.A., the Seattle Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New New York
Dubbed "the ambassadors of song" the choir and Mr. Mooney appeared on American television and were granted honorary citizenship by Washington State.
Following his death at Hamilton on 19 September 1983, the Glasgow Phoenix Choir established in his memory the Peter Mooney Scholarship in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
