Ann Marie Rigler Is Associate Professor of Music and College Organist at William Jewell

Ann Marie Rigler – Organist and Lecturer

Ann Marie Rigler is Associate Professor of Music and College Organist at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, where she teaches music history, hymnody, class piano, and applied organ, and plays for weekly chapel services. Prior to her appointment to the William Jewell faculty, she was Instructor in Music at the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University, where she taught applied organ as well as music appreciation, and also served as Reference Librarian for five different academic units within the University Libraries system. She has also served on the faculties of Wayne State College (Nebraska), the University of Northern Iowa, the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and Simpson College.

Rigler earned the B.Mus. degree in Organ Performance from Southern Methodist University, where she received the Dora Poteet Barclay award in organ. She received master’s degrees in Library and Information Science and Musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was a University Fellow and held teaching assistantships in organ and music history. She was also a Rahn Scholar at the University of Iowa, from which she earned the D.M.A. in Organ Performance and Pedagogy. 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.

Rigler maintains an active schedule as a solo recitalist, clinician, adjudicator, and chamber musician. She is currently working on a recording project featuring the new Letourneau organ in the multi-faith Pasquerilla Spiritual Center at Penn State and preparing a major lecture on trends in American organ pedagogy to be delivered at the national convention of the American Guild of Organists in Washington, D.C. in July 2010. She has served the American Guild of Organists on the national committee for the AGO/Quimby Regional Competitions for Young Organists since 2005 and was Faculty Coordinator for the Greater Kansas City chapter’s Pipe Organ Encounter for high school students in June 2009. In addition to solo recitals for the Organ Historical Society, Rigler has performed with baritone Robert Barefield at national meetings of the College Music Society and the American Guild of Organists, and with trumpeter David Bohnert at the 2001 Region VI convention of the AGO. Having won third place in the AGO National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance in 1992, she has since adjudicated both regional and national rounds of NYACOP.

As a church organist, Rigler has served parishes of various denominations in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. A faculty member for the Kansas City, South Dakota, Eastern Illinois, Des Moines, and Madison (WI) Pipe Organ Encounters, Rigler co-authored the script for the video, The Organ and You: A Young Person’s Guide to the King of Instruments. She has also written articles and reviews for The American Organist, The Diapason, The Journal of Singing, and Music Library Association NOTES. Her organ teachers include Delores Bruch Cannon, Delbert Disselhorst, Jerald Hamilton, Robert T. Anderson, James W. Thrash, Jr, Robert Burns, and Muriel Powell Hatfield.

Ann Marie Rigler, D.M.A. Associate Professor of Music and College Organist William Jewell College WJC Box 1122 500 College Hill Liberty, Missouri 64068 Office: 816-415-7533 [email protected]

Updated: 1 March 2010