Department:
Organ & Historical Keyboards

Contact:
pdubois@thirdpresbyterian.org
(585) 256-1515
Personal Website

PETER DuBOIS serves as Director of Music/Organist (full time) at Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester, New York, a position he has held since September, 1991. He oversees a large and active music and arts ministry there. Since 2000 he has also served as Assistant Professor of Sacred Music (part time) and in 2001 was appointed Director of the Sacred Music Diploma program at the Eastman School of Music. Prior to his appointment at Third Church, he served for ten years as Director of Music/Organist at Christ Church United Methodist in Charleston, West Virginia. He also has taught organ at West Virginia Wesleyan College and the University of Charleston.

Mr. DuBois is in frequent demand as a recitalist around the United States and abroad. He has performed throughout much of the United States, and in Europe he has performed recitals in recent seasons at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London; the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris; the Basilica of Ste. Clotilde in Paris and the Cathédrale du Saint-Saveur in Aix-en-Provence. He completed a month of study in Paris in January 2002 while on sabbatical, studying improvisation with Philippe Lefebvre, and repertoire with Marie-Claire Alain and Marie-Louise Langlais.

He was Second Place Winner in the 1988 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance sponsored by the American Guild of Organists in conjunction with their National Convention in Houston, Texas, and was First Place Winner in the 1987 Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition of the AGO in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Peter holds the Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, where he was a student of renowned artist-teacher David Craighead.  He received the Master of Music degree in Organ Performance from the University of Michigan, having studied there with Robert Glasgow.  Former teachers also include David Mulbury, Clyde English and Marie Boette.

Critically acclaimed as a "world class talent," Peter has performed at numerous colleges, AGO chapters, and churches in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Texas. In addition, he has performed at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina; at the Washington National Cathedral; Grace Cathedral, San Francisco; at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.; and in master classes with Arthur Poister, Gillian Weir, Naji Hakim and Marie-Louise Langlais.

Peter has performed both standard and contemporary organ concertos with several orchestras, including a performance of the Poulenc Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings and Timpani with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and a performance of Stephen Paulus' 1992 Concerto for Organ, Timpani, Percussion and Strings with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. He has been featured frequently on public radio in Rochester and in West Virginia, and has appeared a number of times on the nationally syndicated radio programs, Pipedreams and With Heart and Voice. He is featured as organ soloist and accompanist for the professional choral group Madrigalia on two CD releases, and as conductor of the Third Church Chancel Choir on two CDs: Shout Joy! (1997), and Calm on the Listening Ear of Night: Music for Advent and Christmas (2000). He has led the Chancel Choir of Third Church on two very successful international tours, beginning with a trip in 2001 that included spending a week as Choir-in-Residence at Rochester Cathedral (Kent, UK), and performing as well at Coventry and Salisbury Cathedrals.  They returned to the UK in the summer of 2005 for a week as Choir-in-Residence at London’s landmark St. Paul’s Cathedral, as well as performing concerts in Ely and Edinburgh, and a private workshop with noted composer Andrew Carter.

Peter made his New York debut as a collaborative pianist, accompanying baritone Derrick Smith and trumpeter Herbert Smith in recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in December 2006.

Peter is active not only as a recitalist and church musician, but as an organ clinician for various groups.  He has been organ clinician for summer conferences of the National Fellowship of American Baptist Musicians in Green Lake, Wisconsin, and of the Northeastern Jurisdiction of the Fellowship of United Methodists in Worship, Music and the Other Arts. And, he served on the faculties of several Pipe Organ Encounters in Cleveland and in Rochester — a summer program for high-school age organists from around the country, sponsored by the American Guild of Organists.

Peter has been active in the American Guild of Organists, serving as General Chairman for the 1985 Mid-Atlantic Regional Convention held in Charleston, WV, and is a Past Dean of the Kanawha and Rochester chapters of the AGO. He resides in Rochester with his wife and two children.

He is represented by Windwerk Artists, www.windwerkartists.com. For availability, booking and fees, contact the artist directly — contact information may be found on the previous page.