Jennifer Peringer is a pianist who is passionate about playing chamber music from around the world, with specialties in Latin American repertoire and newly composed music. She is a founding member of both the Bernal Hill Players and the Magnolia piano duo. Jennifer earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of London and a Master of Music degree from San Francisco State University. She currently teaches at the Community Music Center of San Francisco, where she regularly performs in the Shenson Faculty Concert Series and the annual Faculty Piano Marathon.   

Jennifer began what was to be a lifelong love affair with the piano at the age of five. After a childhood studying classical piano in her hometown of Spokane, Washington, and then at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, she explored a broad range of other styles as a young adult, and spent the 1980’s in London working as a multi-instrumentalist, musical director, and composer with several theater companies and bands, such as The Fallout Marching Band, The Black Cardigans, and Palenque. 

Teaching piano and music has always been part of Jennifer’s professional life, especially since joining the faculty of the San Francisco Community Music Center in 2000. Over the years she has taken on several projects at the music center, including producing a faculty chamber music series in 2010, coordinating the student chamber music program from 2005 - 2013, teaching at the children’s music summer camp from 2009 - 2019, and serving as head of the piano department from 2017-2020. In March 2024 CMC gave Jennifer the much coveted Gertrude Field Community Impact Award

‘in recognition of her years of commitment to CMC’s students’. She continues to play an active role at the music center, teaching piano and accordion, and accompanying several student choral ensembles. She also maintains a flourishing home piano studio for her private students.