Peter Wiley (born 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American cellist, chamber musician and music educator.
Wiley became thirteen-year-old student of David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music. After a year as the first cellist in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, he became the first cellist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at the age of twenty. As a soloist he debuted in Carnegie Hall in 1986 with the New York String Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Schneider. In 1987, he became a member of the Beaux Arts Trio, succeeding Bernard Greenhouse. He appeared with the trio in more than one thousand concerts until 1998 and was nominated for a Grammy with him in 1998. In 2001 he followed his teacher Soyer as a cellist of the Guarneri String Quartet, to which he belonged until 2009. With Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom and the pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, he is the piano quartet Opus One.
Als Cellolehrer wirkte Wiley am College-Conservatory of Music Cincinnati, dem Mannes College of Music und der Manhattan School of Music. Er unterrichtet an der University of Maryland, am Bard College Conservatory of Music und seit 1996 am Curtis Institute.
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