FACULTY - Peter A Hendrickson
Associate Professor
Peter Hendrickson is director of choral activities at Augsburg
College, where he conducts the Augsburg Choir and the Masterworks
Chorale. He is also artistic director of Advent Vespers, Augsburg’s
annual celebration of the holiday season.
A graduate of Augsburg College, Hendrickson studied in West Berlin,
at the Hochschule der Künste and the Berliner Kirchenmusikschule,
where he took courses in conducting, organ and harpsichord with
such noted teachers as Martin Behrmann, Karl Hochreither and Bradford
Tracey. He served on the faculties of Macalester College and Columbia
University.
A frequent guest conductor at festivals, Hendrickson serves as
artistic director of the American Choir Festival in Leipzig, Germany,
and
recently conducted the Minnesota Orchestra in several Young People’s
concerts. His conducting activities have also included serving
as
music director for the Warland Symphonic Chorus, assistant conductor
of the nationally known Dale Warland Singers, and music director
of the Minnetonka Choral Society. For five years he held the post
of director of music and organist at Westminster Presbyterian
Church
in Minneapolis.
