Michael Peters
M.M., Westminster Choir College of Rider University
B.M.A and B.S., University of Michigan
Michael Peters is director of the B-W Singers. Originally from Pennsylvania, he completed a B.M.A. in organ performance and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Michigan. He continued his studies at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, earning an M.M. with distinction in choral conducting. Mr. Peters is currently a doctoral candidate in choral conducting and music education at Florida State University.
Mr. Peters has performed and recorded with some of the leading choirs in the United States, including the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, the Dale Warland Singers, the Robert Shaw Festival Chorus, and the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia. In Cleveland he has sung with Apollo’s Fire, Quire Cleveland, and as a soloist at the Church of the Covenant. Recently, Mr. Peters was a conductor at the Oregon Bach Festival, where he studied with Helmuth Rilling.
Prior to his work at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory, Mr. Peters taught at Case Western Reserve University and Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He has also taught at the secondary level as the Oaklawn-Tuttle Chair of Vocal Music, School Organist, and Instructor of the Arts at The Hill School near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Email: mpeters@bw.edu