Jenny Peters

Jenny Peters is a Grammy nominated full time music educator in the Chicago area. She has taught thousands of beginners on a variety of instruments during her many years of teaching. Jenny developed her unique beginner-friendly method of teaching ukulele when she learned to play in order to include ukulele to her fourth grade General Music classes. She has gone on to become a popular YouTube ukulele personality who owns seven different kinds of ukuleles! Jenny and Rebecca have now written six books in the Beginning Ukulele Songs series: Book 1, 21 Songs in 6 Days Learn Ukulele the Easy Way; Book 2, Easy Ukulele Songs: Five with Five Chords; Book 3, 21 Easy Ukulele Songs for Christmas; Book 4, 21 MORE Songs in 6 Days: Learn Intermediate Ukulele the Easy Way; Book 5, 21 Easy Ukulele Folk Songs, and Book 6, 21 Easy Ukulele Hymns. The Illinois Music Educators Association has invited Jenny to do presentations on how to teach ukulele, and she has written articles on the subject for the magazine of the Illinois chapter of the American String Teachers Association. She is a member of The National Association for Music Education (NaFME), and the American String Teachers Association (ASTA). Jenny plays any other instruments besides ukulele: piano, violin, viola, guitar, bass and mandolin. Jenny is a composer, clinician, and educator with 25+ years of experience in the classroom. She retired in 2023 after leading a successful middle school orchestra program. Now she offers school-based clinics in Ukulele, Fiddling, and Meeting a Living Composer. Jenny has served on the faculties of Lake Forest College and the College of Lake County. She taught piano, violin and chamber music at the Music Institute of Chicago and the Lake Forest Music Institute. She holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Illinois and Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Washington. She earned her teacher's certification from Trinity International University to share her passion for music with students of diverse backgrounds.