Peter Jarjisian is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Ohio University where he conducts the University Singers, Chamber Singers, Women's Chorale, Choral Union and Chamber Chorale. He serves as chorus master for School of Music Opera/Music Theatre productions and teaches courses in conducting, choral literature, and choral methods. Dr. Jarjisian also guides graduate students majoring in choral conducting.

After completing music degrees at Susquehanna University and Temple University, he undertook further study at Westminster Choir College, including intensive workshops with Robert Shaw, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned the DMA in choral conducting under Robert Fountain. He has also studied choral or instrumental conducting with Robert Page, Helmuth Rilling, Robert Summer, Gene Young and Gail Poch.

A native of Pennsylvania, he taught for ten years at Pequea Valley High School and served as Director of Choral Music at Franklin and Marshall College, Temple University-Ambler, and The Shipley School. For five summers he conducted choirs of high school and college musicians for American Music Abroad, a cultural-performing tour of Western Europe.

As a member of symphonic choruses, Dr. Jarjisian has performed with the Cleve land Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Mostly-Mozart Orchestra. Those fortunate collaborations have afforded him the opportunity to rehearse and perform under the batons of preeminent conductors including: Christoph von Dohnanyi, Charles Dutoit, Eugene Ormandy, Christopher Hogwood, Yoel Levi, Robert Shaw and Robert Page.

For fifteen seasons, he was Assistant Conductor of the professional choir, The Robert Page Cleveland Singers. Invitations to guest con duct and present choral clinics have taken him to many states around the country. A past-president of the Ohio Choral Directors Association, he serves currently as Director of Music at First United Methodist Church (Athens) and as an adjudicator for Festivals of Music and Music in the Parks.