Peter Hill is graduate of Bucknell University with a Bachelor of Arts in music. While an undergraduate, he was music theory teaching assistant to composer William Duckworth and received the Barbara Watson Grever Prize in Music. Peter received a Master of Music degree in piano performance and a Professional Studies Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music. He also holds a Master of Education in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University. While attending the University of California, Davis for a degree in musicology, Peter was the assistant conductor to Jeffrey Thomas and the UC Davis Chorus.

Peter has taught at the Cleveland Music School Settlement in Ohio, the Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, and All Saints Episcopal Day School in Hoboken. He has been published in the NAfME’s Teaching Music, has reviewed choral music for the Choral Journal of the ACDA, and presented for the Summer Conference of the Hymn Society in 2023. Peter has served as Director of Music in Methodist, Presbyterian, and RCA churches. Prior to serving CUMC, Peter was Director of Choirs for Westminster Presbyterian Church in Sacramento, CA. He has directed the Carter Burden Singers, a community chorus of the Carter Burden Network in East Harlem. Peter presently serves as president of the local music group, the Suburban Music Study Club, and teaches piano at Wharton Institute of Performing Arts in Berkeley Heights. To find out more about Peter Hill go to his website.

Peter has a beautiful daughter, Valentine, tiny-tot son, Leighton, and fantastic wife, Katie. He enjoys sci-fi motion pictures, deconstructing episodes of Doctor Who, a wide variety of quirky literature, too many dad jokes, and looking for new music to make his family sing around the piano.