The Lizette T. Dunham Chair
The Bruce and Margaret King Chair

Joseph Peters is Associate Principal Oboe and English horn with the North Carolina Symphony. He hosted the North Carolina Symphony's streaming concerts for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons. He has conducted the Symphony in Pops programs including the statewide Holiday Pops concerts in 2021, as well as leading educational concerts and performances at UNC Health Summerfest.

Joseph Peters conducts the Taneycomo Festival Orchestra in Branson, Missouri, and was Music Director of the SUNY Buffalo State Philharmonia Orchestra and the Saybrook College Orchestra of Yale University. He has also led a variety of programs at the New World Symphony in Florida.

He previously held Principal Oboe chairs with the Minnesota Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed as guest principal with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and The Florida Orchestra, and for three years, he was a member of the New World Symphony.

Peters first played with the Minnesota Orchestra at age 18, performing Mozart’s Oboe Concerto. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and New World Symphony, as well as the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, of which he is an alumnus.

Long committed to teaching, Peters was the oboe and conducting instructor at the SoBe Institute of the Arts and conducted side-by-side concerts for New World Symphony’s MusicLab program. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and a master’s degree from Yale University.