Aaron Peisner

Aaron Peisner is the Director of Choral Activities at University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he conducts the Chamber Singers and University Chorale and teaches courses in choral music education, aural skills, conducting, and voice. He is the artistic director of the Cape Fear Chorale, an auditioned community choir based in Wilmington. Additionally, Peisner is the chorus master for Opera Wilmington, and previously served as chorus master for the Maryland Opera Studio. He has prepared choirs for performances with the Baltimore and National Symphony Orchestras under the baton of conductors including Marin Alsop, Gianandrea Noseda, Donald Runnicles, and Jeannette Sorrell, including a 2018 Medici TV broadcast performance of John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary with the NSO and Maestro Noseda at the Kennedy Center.

Peisner is a founding member of the newly-formed chamber choir, Wilmington Voices, and sang professionally in the DC-Baltimore area, including as a staff singer in the Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine. He serves as co-chair of NC ACDA’s All-Collegiate Festival Chorus, and maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and clinician. He received his BA in music from Wesleyan University, his MM in Choral Conducting from Yale University, and his DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of Maryland.