In addition to performing solo organ recitals throughout the United States and Canada, Ms. Reinburg has presented over eighty recitals in Germany, France and The Netherlands during the course of her many recital tours in Europe, where venues have included Berlin, Paris, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Lübeck, The Hague, Schleswig, Münster, and Kiel. She is noted particularly for her elegant and exciting playing, her command of period performance practices, and her imaginative programming. She was a recitalist at the 1999 Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC and returned there to perform in June of 2000 following her first recital tour in Australia, where she performed in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Her 2003 tour to Australia will again include these three cities, among others.

She has devoted the majority of her professional life to sacred music as an organist and choral conductor in churches in Washington, DC, Pittsburgh, PA, Worcester, MA and New Haven, CT. As a choral conductor and harpsichordist, she has conducted and performed in some three hundred concerts of choral and chamber music, many of these in Washington, DC at the National Cathedral, the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, and the German Embassy. Performances have included over sixty settings of the Mass and the majority of Bach's choral and solo cantatas, as well as American premieres of numerous 20th-century choral compositions. As an acknowledged accompanist, she has performed in such venues as The National Gallery of Art, The Phillips Collection, the British and German Embassies in Washington, DC and in Norfolk, VA with the Virginia Art Song Society.

A musicologist and organ consultant, Peggy Kelley Reinburg frequently lectures on organ history and design and on sacred music topics. She has conducted numerous organ master classes and workshops for chapters of the American Guild of Organists and various universities and churches in the United States and Canada. Also an author, her articles often appear in The American Organist; and her book, Arp Schnitger, Organ Builder: Catalyst for the Centuries, was published in 1982 by Indiana University Press.

She has recently completed another writing project, The Piano Compositions of Jehan Ariste Alain: Pedagogy and Performance. A cofounder and immediate past-President of the Alain Association in America, she has been instrumental in helping to bring the compositions of France's twentieth-century composer, Jehan Alain, to the attention of both American and European audiences.

A strong advocate for youth involvement in music, Ms. Reinburg designed and implemented the 1988 national pilot project for Pipe Organ Encounters for youth, now one of the major projects sponsored by The American Guild of Organists. Organ students from her college and university studios serve churches throughout the United States and in Korea.

Reviews

"ORGAN RECITAL WITHOUT EARTHLY LIMITATIONS...."

Kiel, Germany
 

"The audience enthusiastically cheered this perfect organ recital."

Haren/Ems, Germany
 

Ms. Reinburg has a passion for excellence! She is a versatile and keenly expressive artist with an informed historic and interpretive sense of the music.
Both her recital and workshop were received enthusiastically by music-lovers and professionals alike.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA/USA
 

'PEGGY KELLEY REINBURG, AN EXCEPTIONAL AMERICAN ORGANIST!"

Amiens (Valloires), France
 

"Peggy Kelley Reinburg's organ performance was a delight to hear! ... appealing colorations for every work and striking interpretations throughout..."
"...a program which rarely offered pauses for technical relaxation."
"The performance of Hindemith's Sonata I ... an impressive look at this 'modern classical' composer."
"With a powerful, emotional interpretation, the Bach Prelude and Fugue (BWV 546) was given new life by Peggy Kelley Reinburg. The artist was once again brilliant!"

Jever, Germany
 

"With her virtuosity and technically-skilled playing, Peggy Kelley Reinburg fully exploited Uetersen's lovely Kloster-Kirche baroque organ."

Uetersen/Hamburg, Germany
 

"Peggy Kelley Reinburg's interpretation of the Liszt Prelude and Fugue on BACH at St. Ansgarii Kirche...accented its introspective unity and was technically expert."
"The ClÈrambault Suite was intellectually and lovingly interpreted!"

Bremen, Germany
 

"Peggy Kelley Reinburg... introduced herself to St. Aegidien as an organist with outstanding abilities."
"The artist performed Liszt's BACH in a vital and exciting manner, maintaining the recital on the highest level!"

L¸beck, Germany
 

"Rare organ music...Prof. Reinburg's registrations, tempii, technique and ornamentation were each the product of a master of the instrument."

Delmenhorst, Germany
 

"Prof. Reinburg aroused admiration with her relaxed, elegant and lively playing and lured from the (Stiftskirche) instrument an abundance of amazing registrations."
"...a versatile virtuosa!"

T. Bingen, Germany
 

"...a fascinating recital by a richly gifted American organist."

Oldenburg, Germany

Contact details and further information

E-mail Peggy Kelley Reinburg Artist representatives: (USA) John S. Dixon and (Europe) Franz-Josef Koehler.