Peggie's 30-year career in nonprofit management encompasses a breadth of skills and experience in general management, operations, programming, artist booking, development, and marketing. Peggie is currently the executive director of Hoyt Arboretum Friends Foundation in Portland, Oregon. Previously she served for seven years as executive director of Mazamas, a mountaineering education nonprofit. From 1996 to 1999, Peggie was Artistic Administrator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where she engaged conductors and soloists for a 32-week subscription season, produced a fully-staged Fidelio conducted by Daniel Barenboim and planned Day of Music, a 24-hour, multi-venue music marathon which attracted 20,000 patrons to Symphony Center. From 1985 to 1996, she was Orchestra Manager (artistic administrator/operations director) for the Oregon Symphony where, in addition to planning the classical, pops, family and kids' series, she created innovative audience development concerts and an extensive regional touring program which received a record $750,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  While at the Oregon Symphony Peggie  collaborated with Peter Jacobson Productions, Inc. to produce Rhapsody On Ice, a spectacular skating event  which featured top American Olympic contenders skating to live symphonic music.  In 1985 Peggie managed special events at Pioneer Courthouse Square, "the heart of downtown Portland,"  which produces over 300 events annually.  From 1980 to 1984, she was Resident Production Stage Manager for Portland Opera and stage-managed opera and dance throughout the United States. Peggie holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music and Sociology, and received a full scholarship to the University of Southern California Opera Workshop.

Peggie Frank Zappa Retrospective Oregon Symphony Click to Enlarge! Rhapsody on Ice Peter Jacobsen Productions, Inc. with the Oregon Symphony