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The American bas, Michael Peters, began singing in children's and youth church choirs growing up in Pennsylvania. While in grade school, he and a fellow classmate would often travel to area churches to sing, accompanied by his mother. He joined the adult choir at his home church during his high school years and continued to be involved in church music during his undergraduate studies. He obtained his BMA degree in Organ Performance and his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Michigan. He continued his studies at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, earning his Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting.
During his studies at the University of Michigan, Michael Peters was bass section leader at a large Lutheran, and then later Presbyterian church in Ann Arbor. During graduate study at Westminster Choir College, he was organist and directed adult and handbell choirs at a Methodist church on the New Jersey shore. He also served as director of music at a Presbyterian Church in the FL panhandle. For five years he served as the Oaklawn-Tuttle Chair of Vocal Music, School Organist, and Instructor of the Arts at the Hill School near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A lifelong church musician. Michael Peters has enjoyed singing with various church choirs including those at Westminster Presbyterian and St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis, and at St. Clement's in Philadelphia. He sings professionally and has performed and recorded with some of the leading choirs in the USA such leading choirs as the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Dale Warland Singers, Robert Shaw Festival Chorus, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and Vox Humana in Dallas, and appeared in the Florida State Opera Theatre. He has sung at Church of the Covenant in Cleveland for the past eight years (since 2010) as a member of the Covenant Choir and as a soloist. In Cleveland, he also sings with Apollo's Fire (Director: Jeannette Sorrell) and Quire Cleveland (Director: Ross W. Duffin). He has also taught choral music at the collegiate level. Currently, he is a lecturer in music at Case Western Reserve University and conducts there the Case Concert Choir.. |
