Peter Siepmann is a conductor, organist, teacher and examiner based in the East Midlands of the UK. He is well-known in the region for his encouraging, enthusiastic and informed approach to rehearsal and performance. 

He was educated at St Edward’s School in Oxford and the University of Nottingham, where he was awarded a doctorate in 2010.  As a conductor, Peter has directed many of the major works of the choral repertoire with choirs and orchestras of all sizes, both amateur and professional, on the concert stage and in a liturgical setting. Peter became conductor of Nottingham Bach Choir in September 2019, following Paul Hale's twenty-nine year tenure.  As an accompanist and continuo player (a particular passion), Peter has performed with many of the UK's leading soloists.

Since September 2007, Peter has been Organist & Director of Music at St Peter’s Church in the centre of Nottingham, where the church choir produces what the Nottingham Post has described as "an outstanding standard of music-making"; the choir's singing is also regularly praised at its termly visits to cathedrals and abbeys both around the UK and abroad.  In 2010, Peter oversaw the design, fundraising and installation of a new church organ. 

Alongside his work as a conductor and organist, Peter is an Examiner for ABRSM and an an experienced educator, having taught in the renowned department at Uppingham School and then for over a decade at Repton School as Head of Academic Music. He serves on the grant assessment panel of the Cathedral Music Trust and writes regularly for Naxos records.  Peter is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and a number of his organ pupils have gone on to cathedral and university scholarships. He lives in Southwell with his wife Adele and son Alexander, who is a cathedral chorister. 

Saturday Streams

These four online presentations of organ music and commentary were broadcast from St Peter's Nottingham in February 2021