Andrew Peters
Andrew Peters
Organist and conductor Andrew Peters serves as associate director of music at Trinity English Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He directs two children's choirs, one handbell choir, and shares service playing and chancel choir conducting responsibilities with director of music, Robert Hobby. He also teaches organ at Purdue University Fort Wayne. In addition to playing solo organ recitals, Peters accompanies silent films starring Harold Lloyd.
A recipient of numerous awards, Peters has received the Paul and Ruth Manz Organ and Church Music Award, the John Rodland Memorial Church Music Scholarship, and the Peter B. Knock Memorial Church Music Scholarship. He won first place in the Twin Cities American Guild of Organists (AGO) Young Artists Competition and second place in both the San Marino National Organ Competition and the Region VI AGO Young Artists Competition. He was also a Semifinalist in the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance.
Since 2013 Peters has been ensemble organist with the St. Louis Symphony. He has played under numerous conductors including Karina Canallakis, Sir Andrew Davis, Stéphane Denève, Matthew Halls, Samuel Hollister, Bernard Labadie, Hannu Linntu, Gemma New, David Robertson, Nathalie Stutzmann, Masaaki Suzuki, and Xian Zhang. His first season included performing Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes at Carnegie Hall on what would have been Britten’s one hundredth birthday. In 2026 he played organ with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
A graduate of St. Olaf College and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Peters has studied organ and church music with Agnes Armstrong, Douglas Cleveland, Carla Edwards, John Ferguson, Wilma Jensen, Barbara and Noel Piercy, and Todd Wilson. He has served Episcopalian, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, and United Methodist congregations in Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee. He has been featured as a guest commentator on the radio program Great Sacred Music and organist on Pipedreams. His music is published by Augsburg Fortress, MorningStar Music, and Paraclete Press. He and his wife live in Fort Wayne.
