Peter Carter

Peter Carter is the founder and director of the Catholic Sacred Music Project,and the author of "The Song of the Lamb: Sacred Music and the Heavenly Liturgy" (2025, Ignatius Press).  He also serves as the Director of Sacred Music of the Aquinas Institute of Princeton University and the Director of Sacred Music at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Allentown, New Jersey. He leads the parish chorister program and conducts a twenty-four voice semi-professional Schola Cantorum who sing for a weekly Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form.

Mr. Carter holds degrees from Westminster Choir College, studying the organ with Alan Morrison and Daryl Robinson, conducting with Dr. James Jordan and Dr. Andrew Megill, and voice with Dr. Christopher Arneson. He has sung and recorded with the Westminster Symphonic Choir, the Grammy® nominated Westminster Williamson Voices, The Same Stream, and The Lotus Project. He has performed as an organist in the United States and France and has played for televised liturgies on EWTN. As a clinician, he has led sacred music workshops throughout the United States and at the seminary of the Fraternity of St. Joseph the Guardian in the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France.

From 2019-2020, he served as co-host of Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast, interviewing prominent Church figures and musicians including Robert Cardinal Sarah, Olivier Latry, and Sir James MacMillan. In 2020, Mr. Carter directed the music for a Sarum Vespers which was sponsored by the Durandus Institute and thought to be the first Catholic Sarum liturgy in the United States. Since 2016, he serves as the director of liturgical music for the Pro Civitate Dei summer conferences hosted by the Fraternity of St. Joseph the Guardian in the United States, France, and Chile. In 2021, he founded The Catholic Sacred Music Project with an inaugural Choral Festival at the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia with Sir James MacMillan featured as the festival conductor.