"His program was absolutely magnificent--one of the finest recitals I have heard in a very long time. He has staggering technique...pure delight from beginning to end!" (Robert MacDonald, First Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth TX)
"The audience repeatedly gave him standing ovations!" (Barbara Heckler, Seventh Day Adventist Church,
Ocala FL)
"It will take a long time to come down from the 'high' that we all felt at [Peter Richard Conte's] recital. At the reception many of the people I talked to said this is the way to get people to go to organ recitals--give us music that we can enjoy, after all we are not all organ experts but we all enjoy a good tune. Mr. Conte did just that in his choice of the works he performed for us. He had the audience in the palm of his hand with 'Danny Boy.' I have heard a lot of recitals in this Abbey over the years and I have enjoyed them all. But today we heard something different. I don't know how to classify precisely what I heard but I will say this, Mr. Conte got sounds out of our instrument that I did not know existed, and I have been playing it for 20 years. The transcriptions he played...were just breathtaking. Aside from the musicality of the recital, which was superb, Mr. Conte's youthfulness was apparent. That young man is alive! You have a 'great' on your roster of artists...you have a real winner with Mr. Conte. Thanks for sending him to us."(Bartholomew Agar, O.Praem., St. Norbert's Abbey, De Pere, Wisconsin, presenter)