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The Canadian organist, pianist, choral conducor and tenor singer, Peter Nikiforuk, obtaned his Bachelor of Music degree from from the University of Toronto; as well as his Master of Music degree, Master of Musical Arts degree and Doctor of Musical Arts degree (1993) from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He also holds an Advanced Course Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London, England and Diploma from the American Guild of Organists. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships.
Peter Nikiforuk is active as a piano teacher, workshop clinician and editor and examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) and the Royal Canadian College of Organists. He is a certified teacher by the RCM at all levels. He is also a member of the Royal Canadian College of Organists - RCCO (Executive Director: 1989-2000; President: 2020-2022), the American Guild of Organists and The Hymn Society of the United States and Canada. In 2019, he became an Associate of the American Guild of Organists and in 2020, he was elected National President of the RCCO.
Active as both an organist and choral conductor, Peter Nikiforuk conducted Menno Singers in Kitchener-Waterloo for 19 seasons (1998-2017). He has been Director of Music at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Kitchener since 1989, and iano and Theory and Rudiments Instructor at Beckett School at Laurier since 2000. He is co-owner and editor of Kelman Hall Publishing, which specializes in choral music.
As a soloist Peter Nikiforuk regularly performs in Waterloo Region and further afield. Most recently, he performed as a member of the Northbroek Organ Academy in the Netherlands in June 2018.
Awards & Achievements: Leslie Bell Prize in Choral Conducting (1996); President of Royal Canadian College of Organists (2020-2022); Vice President of Royal Canadian College of Organists (2018-2020); Laurier Centre for Music and Community Award of Recognition (June 2009). |
