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Email: Peter.j.niki@gmail.com
Peter Nikiforuk is an organist, conductor and pedagogue with an interest in keyboard music of the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly the stylus fantasiticus and, more recently, the Italian partimento tradition. He holds numerous degrees including a DMA from Yale University. He has also studied at the University of Toronto and the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. Dr. Nikiforuk was Director of Music at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Kitchener from 1989-2022 and was named Director of Music Emeritus upon his retirement. He has been an instructor of piano and music theory at the Laurier Academy of Music and Arts since 2000. Peter won the prestigious Leslie Bell Prize in Choral Conducting in 1996. He conducted Menno Singers from 1998-2017. He was National President of the Royal Canadian College of Organists from 2020-2022 and in 2025 was awarded the diploma of Fellow (honoris causa) by the RCCO.