Janet Reihle.
In Sunday’s (4/13) Magnolia Tribune (Jackson, Mississippi), Marilyn Tinnin writes, “Janet Reihle, the new president and executive director of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, assumed her position on April 1. If the first week is a predictor of the future, great things are in store for the symphony’s eighty-first season, which begins in August…. A native of Sebastopol in Scott County, where her grandfather pastored a small Presbyterian church, she was a little girl when he enlisted Janet and her sister as pianists…. [Later], ‘I was immediately drawn to the music industry field largely because I was very involved in the local band scene,’ Janet says…. She learned the ins and outs of everything from reel-to-reel recording, strategic ways to promote musicians, and the business side of creating a plan…. [In Jackson], her leadership roles include positions at the Metro YMCAs of Mississippi and as Executive Director of the Chamber of Flowood’s Visitor’s Center…. She is something like a friendly church greeter who loves the organization she has been called to represent and delivers the message to all … Each year, 75,000 Mississippians attend a live performance…. One of her stated goals is to expand programming and increase community engagement, and that vision encompasses engagement from the Gulf Coast to the Tennessee line.”
