07/20/2026
Meet our Music Director, Mary Hoffman!
Mary has served as the Director of Music Ministries at Peachtree Presbyterian Church since 2008, where she conducts the Chancel Choir, Chamber Chorale, and Youth Choir. She has conducted various masterworks with the Peachtree Choirs including the Mozart and Fauré Requiems, Haydn’s The Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and the Bach Magnificat. Mary was Peachtree’s Children’s Music director from 1998 to 2008.
Mary Hoffman founded the annual Peachtree Summer Pops Concert in 2009 to feature talented young musicians around the region. She participated in recent commissions of choral music by composers such as Simon Johnson, Michael Kurth and Stephen Newby. Peachtree’s Music Ministry hosted the southeast premieres of Montage for Martin by Dr. Stephen Newby (2020), JFK: Rise, Fall and Immortality by Kurt Bestor (2013), and the Magnificat (2015) and Tenebrae (2017) by Atlanta composer Michael Kurth.
As a singer, Mary has sung with the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Atlanta Master Chorale, the U.S. Army Ground Forces Band, and the Kings Singers’ Summer Institute in Cambridge, England. As an educator prior to coming to Peachtree Presbyterian, Mary taught music in the public schools of Georgia, Colorado and Illinois. Mary has served as president of both the Kodaly Educators of Georgia and of the Atlanta Choristers Guild. She has coached high school musical performances for several Atlanta area high schools. She holds an undergraduate degree in Music Education/Voice from Illinois Wesleyan University, and earned her Master’s degree in Sacred Music/Choral Conducting from Emory University, where she studied with Dr. Eric Nelson.
