KIMBERLY
REIGHLEY
PROFESSOR, FLUTE
233, Swope Music Building
KReighley@wcupa.edu
Education
- D.M.A., Temple University
- M.M., Temple University
- B.M., Temple University
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Kimberly Reighley is Professor of Flute at West Chester University where she teaches applied flute and directs the Trilovati Flute Ensemble. She enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral flutist, and recording artist. A critically acclaimed performer on baroque flute, modern flute, and alto flute, she has performed throughout the United States and abroad including at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Lianhuashan Glades Music Festival in Shenzhen China, and the Compositores de Hoje international festival in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. She is the Principal Flutist of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Ama Deus Ensemble, and OperaDelaware.
Chamber music credits include the Quintsylvania Winds, which gave its debut performance at Weil Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall and will release a new CD of American Wind Music in the coming year. She was Co-Artistic Director and founding member of the chamber ensemble, Mélomanie, a baroque/contemporary ensemble known for its provocative pairings of early and contemporary works. The ensemble's performances of baroque and early classical music were historically informed and played on period instruments. In its contemporary practice, Mélomanie collaborated with composers and guest artists over a 25-year time span in premieres of over 50 works, many featuring distinctly non-baroque elements — percussion, guitar, sitar, recorded sound, jazz ensemble, and spoken-word urban poetry. The ensemble produced five recordings on the Lyrichord label including Excursions, Florescence, Up to the Light, Ultraviolet, and a hint of light remains. This latest recording features commissioned works specifically for flute and harpsichord. Promotion and performance of music for flute and harpsichord continues with her duo, Mélomanie2. Kim can also be heard on Mark Hagerty's Forays performing Sea Level — a solo alto flute piece written especially for her — and on the Lyrichord label performing works of Telemann performed on baroque flute.
Winner of the Delaware State Arts Council Masters Fellowship in Music, she has performed as a guest artist with Arco Voce, Brandywine Baroque, Pro Musica Rara, and Le Triomphe de l'Amour, and has appeared as a soloist on baroque flute, modern flute, piccolo, and alto flute at the Carmel Bach Festival, the National Flute Association Convention, the Mid Atlantic Flute Convention, and with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Reading Symphony, Bay Atlantic Symphony, Delaware County Symphony, and the Ama Deus Ensemble.
Reviews of her solo performances have included the following:
"Reighley's solos, spiky and playful in the outer movements, long-lined and reflective in the Andante, rode easily atop the orchestra's interruptions and occasional duets. The effect was of opera buffa with a heart-melting center." (The News Journal)
"Flutist Kimberly Reighley…playing a Baroque wooden flute produced a sound almost unearthly in its purity and transparency…There was such a lovely effortless quality about Reighley's music making that I never wanted this performance to end…It would be difficult to imagine this sonata played any better." (The Carmel Pinecone)
"Reighley's technique was dazzling, her playing sheer joy." (The Reading Eagle)
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