Dr. Rigler maintains an active schedule as a solo recitalist, lecturer, adjudicator, and chamber musician, with recital credits at venues throughout the United States. She has both performed and lectured for conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society, and the College Music Society, and a DVD of her lecture at the 2010 national AGO convention in Washington, D.C. (“How we got here from there: Trends in pedagogy, 1860-1960”) is currently in production. Upcoming engagements include a lecture (“Conversations and Legacies” Exploring late 20th-century American organ pedagogy through oral history”) for the AGO Region III convention in Harrisburg, PA in June 2011, a lecture/recital (“We will go to hear Beecher and Zundel”) for the Greater Kansas City chapter of the AGO in October 2011, and a solo recital of selected works of Jehan Alain scheduled for October 2011 as part of her Spring 2011 sabbatical leave from William Jewell College. In addition to offering those programs, she continues to specialize in offering recitals that represent a wide variety of faith traditions, inspired by her connections to the multi-faith Pasquerilla Spiritual Center at Penn State and its 2005 installation by Orgues Létourneau, Ltée. Having been a finalist in the 1992 AGO National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance, she has since served as adjudicator for AGO Regional Competitions for Young Organists and the national tape round of NYACOP. As a church organist, she has served parishes of various denominations in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

Dr. Rigler earned the B.Mus. degree in Organ Performance from Southern Methodist University, where she received the Dora Poteet Barclay award in organ as a student of Robert T. Anderson. She received the M.S. in Library and Information Science and the M.M. in Musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was a University Fellow and held teaching assistantships in organ and music history while studying with Jerald Hamilton. She was a Rahn Scholar at the University of Iowa, from which she earned the D.M.A. in Organ Performance and Pedagogy as a student of Delores Bruch Cannon and Delbert Disselhorst. Her dissertation research on organist John Zundel was supported by grants from the Organ Historical Society American Organ Archive and the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. Faculty research awards from Wayne State College allowed her to pursue post-graduate harpsichord study with Larry Palmer at Southern Methodist University.

A strong advocate for young organists, Dr. Rigler served the American Guild of Organists on the national committee for the AGO/Quimby Regional Competitions for Young Organists for three terms (2005-2011), has taught at five Pipe Organ Encounters, and was Faculty Coordinator for the Greater Kansas City chapter’s Pipe Organ Encounter for high school students in June 2009. In addition to co-authoring the script for the videotape, The Organ and You: A Young Person’s Guide to the King of Instruments, she has written articles and reviews for The American Organist, The Diapason, The Journal of Singing, and Music Library Association NOTES. She nurtures her interest in early music through membership in the Southeastern and Midwest Historical Keyboard societies, participation in the annual JEMSFEST (Jewell Early Music Summer Festival), and performances with her husband, a violinist/violist who specializes in Baroque music.

Web site: www.annmarierigler.com
E-mail: riglera@william.jewell.edu