PETER ROBB · Founder / Artistic Director

Peter Robb has been involved with choral music since joining the San Francisco Boys Chorus at age six.

A tireless advocate for music education and choral music in the schools, Mr. Robb created OFC’s public school residencies in 2002 to support the efforts of local music educators to keep choral music in the school day.

Mr. Robb has directed choirs and taught in elementary, middle, high school, and university settings in addition to working with civic and professional choruses during 28 years as a choral director. He serves as Executive and Artistic Director of the Pacific International Children's Choir Festival, now in its fourteenth season. Mr. Robb is also Music Education Director at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Eugene.

In addition to conducting and teaching, Mr. Robb is a composer and arranger of choral, contemporary a cappella and musical theatre works. His music is published with Hal Leonard and Colla Voce Music.

Mr. Robb earned a master's degree in choral conducting at the University of Oregon and makes his home in Eugene with wife Genevieve and family. The Robbs have four children and five grandchildren, all living in Eugene.

CAMILLA CARTER • Principal Accompanist

Camilla Carter is a Eugene freelance collaborative pianist who played frequently on the Oregon Mozart Players' "Chamber Music and Chocolate" series, at the University of Oregon and for the Eugene Opera. She played extensively in the San Francisco area before moving back to Oregon, including work with SF Girls Chorus, with whom she had toured to Hungary.

Mrs. Carter began accompanying in fifth grade for her school choir and continued with school and community productions. While a student at Stanford University, she played for over a hundred recitals in her four years there (while studying harp, not piano). Masterclasses with Elly Ameling, Margo Garrett, and Jean-Pierre Rampal were highlights during those years.

The last 10 years have been filled with the joys and demands of parenting with her piano technician husband, Rick, and homeschooling their two children Ariana and Anthony. Ariana is a member of both Lyrica and ARIA.

AMY KAPPELER • Choir Director

Amy Appel has taught public school choir, band, and general music since 2005. Currently, she teaches choir and band at Elmira High School in the Fern Ridge School District. She sings with the Eugene Symphony Chorus and the a cappella choir Clefs of Insanity, and has sung in the Bach Festival Supplemental Chorus.  She got her musical start as a flutist, and has played in bands and  orchestras for most of her life.

Ms. Appel graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied music and computer science. She earned her master’s in music education from Indiana University, where she assisted the Indiana University Children’s Choir and sang in a choir that specialized in world music. Originally from Long Island, she was drawn to the northwest after graduate school and loves living in Oregon.

MARGARET GOWEN • Accompanist

Margaret Gown is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s in Piano Performance at the University of Oregon. She accompanies choirs at Lane Community College as well as OFC, and hopes to teach privately after completing her degree.