The Official Website of Percussion Soloist and Drummer Lisa Pegher
Press
“Forcefully Balletic” - The Boston Globe
“Tremendous” - The New York Times
"Exuberant, daring, and transcendent" - Fanfare Magazine
“American virtuoso percussionist Lisa Pegher’s electrifying interpretation of Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto surely ranks among the greatest all-time performances in the WNMF’s 35-year history.”— Holly Harris, Winnipeg Free Press, January 24, 2026
Read the full review
“The concert features 11 pieces, though its centrepiece is Pegher’s Fate Amenable to Grace.”
— Conrad Sweatman, Winnipeg Free Press, January 17, 2026
Read “Pondering the algo-rhythms”
« La création française du concerto pour percussions de Richard Danielpour avec la talentueuse américaine Lisa Pegher. »
“The French premiere of Richard Danielpour’s percussion concerto, featuring the talented American Lisa Pegher.” — English translation
— M+ / City of Mulhouse, May 2019
Read the original French coverage
« L’Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse invite les spectateurs à “swinguer” dans une aventure 100 % américaine. »
“The Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra invites audiences to swing through a completely American musical adventure.”— English translation
— Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, May 8, 2019
Read “Made in USA”
"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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Marching to the beat of her own drum - Our Town NYC​
Lisa Pegher: Rhythms, Circuits, & Artificial Intelligence - Spotlight On Podcast
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Lisa Pegher's Digital Reboot of Classical Percussion - The Tonearm
Lisa Pegher: Percussion Pioneer - Conversations with Musicians Podcast
How AI is disrupting our Industry - Authority Magazine
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"Created for a Star, Northern Nights (aka Circuits & Skins) reaches new heights in Percussion Music" - Lansing State Journal
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Six to Watch "Young Talent on the Rise" - Symphony Magazine (only in print)
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New York Classical Review - Alice Tully Hall (Danielpour's Celestial Circus)
Album review Concerto for Percussion by David Stock - Second Inversion
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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" - New Jersey Entertainment
"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…” - The Glass
“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
"A solo virtuoso revitalizes the art of percussion" - The Lindy Hopper
“NEPA Philharmonic ends season on a Vibrant Note” - Scranton Times
Interview Preview of her new york debut at the cell - Chris McGovern Music
"The New World of Percussion Concertos comes to the West Virginia Symphony"
- WV Gazette Mail
"Percussion and Purity" - Lawrence Cosentino
Time Out New York
Symphoria drums in the Season - Syracuse Entertainment
Lisa Pegher in Residency with UCLA Composition Department - School of Music UCLA