Andrew J. Peters A
native of New Jersey, Andrew Peters serves as Pastoral Musician (Organist-
Director of Music) at Second Presbyterian Church in St. Louis. He graduated cum laude with a church music degree and music
department distinction from Saint Olaf College in Northfield,
Minnesota. While studying with John Ferguson, he served at All Saints
Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church in Northfield, and as
assistant organist in worship services at St. Olaf. During
graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Peters studied
organ with Todd Wilson. He served as Music Intern at Church of the
Covenant (Presbyterian), directed the University Singers at Case Western
Reserve University, and worked as staff accompanist at the Cleveland Music
School Settlement. In
1996, Mr. Peters received the Peter B. Knock Sacred Music Award from Rye, New
York and the Paul and Ruth Manz Church Music Scholarship. He won
several competitions in 1997 including first-place in both the American Guild
of Organists (AGO) Twin Cities Competition and the John Rodland Memorial
Scholarship Competition, second-place in the Region VI AGO Young Artists
Competition, and honorable mention in the Ottumwa National Undergraduate
Competition. In 2004, Mr. Peters received second-place in the San
Marino/ Elizabeth Elftman Organ Competition and third-place-tie in the
Chicago AGO Organ Competition.
In 2006, he was semi-finalist in the National Young Artists
Competition in Organ Performance. Mr.
Peters began his piano and organ studies with Noel and Barbara Piercy and
completed additional organ study with Agnes Armstrong, Douglas Cleveland, and
Wilma Jensen. He maintains an active recital schedule playing at venues
across the United States. A member of the American Guild of Organists, he
was Dean of the Nashville AGO Chapter and is currently Director of the 2010
St. Louis Pipe Organ Encounter for young organists. His recording of
music played on the 14-rank Schoenstein Organ of the Historic Franklin
Presbyterian Church in Franklin Tennessee, Spirited Sounds in a Small,
Sacred Space, was
released in the fall of 2008. The
Diapason reviewed his
recording as having “… versatility of repertoire … clean and imaginative
playing … continually appropriate registration …”. He and his family live in the city of St.
Louis. |