Title:  Associate Professor of Music
Office: Jenson-Noble 159
Phone: 1.563.387.2208
E-mail: petersdr@luther.edu
Degree: D.M.A., University of Iowa
Interests: Conducting, Cathedral Choir, Aurora

Dr. Sandra Peter is an Associate Professor of Music at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, where she conducts Cathedral Choir (100 sophomores, mixed voices) and Aurora (100 first-year women). She also teaches conducting and ear training. 

In demand as a choral clinician and guest conductor, she has led All-State and honor choirs throughout the United States.  Dr. Peter is an active member of American Choral Directors Association, the College Music Society, and a charter member of The National Collegiate Choral Organization, as well as its state chair for Iowa.  She has been invited to speak at national meetings of both NCCO and ACDA and several of her choirs have performed at regional choral conventions.  She is a published arranger with the Neil Kjos Company and MorningStar Music and the co-editor of MorningStar’s Luther College Music Series.  She is a contributor to Conducting Women’s Choirs: Strategies for Success, forthcoming from GIA Publications.

Her experience includes many years conducting church choirs of all ages, most recently serving First Lutheran Church in Decorah.  She was also a founding member of the National Lutheran Choir, under the direction of Larry L. Fleming.

A native of Saint Paul, Minnesota, Dr. Peter holds degrees from Concordia College (Moorhead), University of Arizona and the University of Iowa.  Her conducting mentors include Jan Gilbertson, Paul J. Christiansen, William Hatcher, and Timothy Stalter.