Allison Carpenter is a graduate of Wartburg College with a Bachelor of Music Education. While at Wartburg, she served as artistic director of the treble-voiced chamber ensemble for three years, researching and presenting diverse treble repertoire for their programs. She also served as an accompanist, as a music festival and tour coordinator, and as a representative of Wartburg’s ACDA and NAfME chapters. Mrs. Carpenter completed her undergraduate research on the ties between Cognitive Psychology and Music Education to cultivate independent thinking and create resilient musicians within her rehearsals. She completed Levels I & II of her Kodály certification at Indiana University Bloomington.

A proud Fort Wayne native, Mrs. Carpenter was a ten-year member of the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir and graduated from Concordia Lutheran High School. She lives in Fort Wayne with her husband, Cade.