Peter Warshaw

Peter J. Warshaw retired in 2022 as the Fine Arts Director in Leander ISD, after a 44-year career in public school music education. Previously, Mr. Warshaw served as the Coordinator of Fine Arts in Bryan ISD, as well as Director of Bands at J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, TX from 1993-2002. During his tenure at Pearce, the band performed twice by invitation in Carnegie Hall, was awarded the Sudler Flag of Honor in 2000, and was selected as the TMEA Class 4A Honor Band in 2001. While serving as Fine Arts Director in Leander ISD, he was named Music Administrator of the Year by the Texas Music Administrators Conference in 2014 and received the TBA Lifetime Administrator Award in 2016. Additionally, he was selected to the TBA Hall of Fame in 2024.

He is a life member of the International Percy Grainger Society and received the Grainger Medallion in 1998, in recognition of his distinctive contribution to the music of Percy Grainger. In retirement, he is active in the Texas Fine Arts Administrators, Inc. (TFAA) and serves as the group facilitator of the Austin Survivors of Suicide. He is a frequent presenter at TMEA, TBA, CEDFA, the Midwest Clinic, and the Sam Houston State University Center for Music Education, and has served as a guest lecturer at Sam Houston State University and The University of Texas at Austin. He is in great demand as an adjudicator, clinician, and speaker throughout the state and is a published writer, music transcriber, and poet.