Director of Music
Peter Siepmann has been appointed Director of Music here at Nottingham Cathedral.
We are delighted to welcome Peter Siepmann as our new Director of Music.
Peter, is a Conductor and Organist already well known in the Nottingham area 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.
His time directing the University of Nottingham Chamber Choir involved collaborations with the Orlando Consort, the London Sinfonietta and broadcasts on BBC Radio 3.
Peter became Conductor of Nottingham Bach Choir in September 2019, following Paul Hale’s twenty-nine year tenure.
Since September 2007, Peter has been Organist & Director of Music at St Peter’s Church in the heart of the city of Nottingham, where the church choir produces what the Nottingham Post has described “an outstanding standard of music-making”; the choir's singing is also regularly praised at regular 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, Organist and an Examiner for ABRSM, Peter has recently started working at Peterborough Cathedral as a Fundraising Officer, following sixteen years as a Music Teacher - first in the renowned department at Uppingham School, and then at Repton School as Head of Academic Music.
As a writer, he regularly provides programme notes for Naxos Records, and he is also pleased to sit on the Grant Assessment Panel of the Cathedral Music Trust.
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, Nottinghamshire with his wife Adele and young son Alexander, who is a Cathedral Chorister.
On being appointed Director of Music, Peter says: “I feel so privileged to be taking on this role at Nottingham Cathedral at such an exciting time in its history. Music lies at the very heart of the Church’s liturgy, and I am hugely looking forward to sharing the treasures of plainsong, polyphony and the wider Catholic tradition with the community here. It will be a joy to continue my various predecessors’ work in developing singers of all ages, and to collaborate with the Dean, clergy and wider staff team to help the Cathedral’s music and liturgy continue to grow in quality, depth and inspiration.”
We are very excited, and very much looking forward to Peter joining the Cathedral Team for the First Sunday of Advent (if not before).
