Piano, Keyboard Performance by Margin

I am a young keyboardist (piano, harpsichord, electronic keyboards), composer, and interdisciplinary artist who is eager to foster community, enlightenment, and joy through music. This spring, I graduated from Haverford College with a B.A. in music (with honors) and in mathematics.

My solo performance experience includes my senior thesis recital, in which I performed a wide range of repertoire including Ludwig van Beethoven’s Op. 110 piano sonata, Gabriela Lena Frank’s Sonata Andina, and select movements of a suite by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (played on harpsichord). In June 2023, I performed my work “fluxing, quivering, transforming,” which is a fusion of classical piano and performance art, at New Music Gathering in Portland, Oregon. In April 2020, I performed a virtual, interactive piano concert, reinterpreting UK-based composer Lola Perrin’s Significantus to reflect upon collective care within the climate crisis and the pandemic.

In college I played in chamber ensembles, including two piano trios (the first performed selections of Clara Schumann’s and Germaine Tailleferre’s trios, the second the whole of Dmitri Shostakovich’s E minor trio) and two piano duos (playing Darius Milhaud’s Scaramouche and the Finale Curt Cacioppo’s Piano Variations on Hail to the Chief). In Dec. 2021, I performed on harpsichord with two other students who played violin and viola in Haverford’s chamber music concert. We performed select movements from sonatas by Dietrich Buxtehude and by J.S. Bach/C.P.E. Bach. I have some familiarity with reading figured bass, enough to write out my own realization but not to improvise on the spot.

In high school, I frequently accompanied ensembles, most often choirs, including PMEA District 11 Choir ((phone number hidden)9), PMEA Region 6 Choir ((phone number hidden)8), PMEA All-State Choir (2017), PMEA All-State Concert Band (2018), NAfME All-Eastern Orchestra (2019), and various school ensembles, including one year in a jazz band. From 8th to 12th grades, I played keyboard synth for school musical pit orchestras (shows in chronological order): Les Miserables, Big Fish, The Secret Garden, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Spamalot. Multiple times I played the primary Keyboard 1 part. Currently, I’m the Collaborative Pianist for the avocational choir Coroallegro based in Wilmington, Delaware.

I have a DipABRSM in Piano Performance (awarded in 2018). I am also a composer with some experience with electronics and multimedia work. In addition, I play the viola at an intermediate level and was principal violist in school orchestra throughout high school, and I also have some training in solo voice. If desired, I can include in my act/program a song or two that I sing while accompanying myself.