The Official Website of Percussion Soloist and Drummer Lisa Pegher
Press
“Forcefully Balletic” - The Boston Globe
“Tremendous” - The New York Times
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"A solo virtuoso revitalizes the art of percussion" - The Lindy Hopper
"Circuits and Skins" - Review of Northern Nights by Paul Dooley
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"Created for a Star, Northern Nights reaches new heights in Percussion Music"
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Six to Watch "Young Talent on the Rise" - Symphony Magazine
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New York Classical Review - Alice Tully Hall
Second Inversion - Album review Concerto for Percussion by David Stock
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"Pegher proved that in an expert's hand's, percussion instruments can be just as expressive as a violin or a piano." - Southbend Tribune
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"South Bend audience among first to hear new percussion concerto" - Southbend Tribune
"New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's Vigorous "Wounded Healer" powered by Lisa Pegher's Percussion"
"Percussionist Pegher Rocks The Clay" - Charleston Gazette
“A globe-trotting soloist of increasing prominence” - The Boston Music Intelligencer
“The lights dim, then darken is the intimate confines of The Cell. A single spotlight glows over a drum set in center stage. One figure emerges from the corner, picks up two drumsticks, and pounds out a jarring thwackk…” Sharon Mizarahi (The Lindy Hopper NYC) - Chris McGovern (The Glass NYC)
“Pegher has an uncanny feel for the vibraphone’s sound. While mostly used as a jazz instrument with soft mallets that give it a mellow, sweet tone Pegher found a stark tone that made the instrument sound dark and tragic”
- The West Virginia Gazette
“Pegher’s part was just bass drum, playing dirge-like rhythms, but again she showed a splendid ear for tone, drawing whispers to thunder from the seemingly one-dimensional instrument” - The Charleston South Carolina Gazette
“NEPA Philharmonic ends season on a Vibrant Note” - Scranton Times
The Glass Blog Interview by Chris McGovern
"Richard Danielpour to write new percussion concerto for Lisa Pegher"
Percussion and Purity - Lawrence Cosentino
Time Out New York
Pounding out Schwantner - Michigan’s City Pulse Magazine
Symphoria drums in the Season
Lisa Pegher in Residency with UCLA Composition Department