Collaborative Piano
Margaret McDonald is an assistant professor of collaborative piano at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Having joined the keyboard faculty in the fall of 2004, she helped to develop the College of Music's new graduate degree program in collaborative piano and the undergraduate collaborative curriculum.
Ms. McDonald enjoys a very active performing career regionally and nationally as a recital partner with many distinguished artists, including members of the Takács Quartet, Judith Ingolffson, Wendy Warner, Carol Wincenc, Christina Jennings, Tadeu Coelho, George Pope, David Shifrin, William VerMeulen, Philip Myers, Steven Mead, and Velvet Brown.
Ms. McDonald received bachelor's and master's degrees in piano performance from the University of Minnesota, where she studied with Lydia Artymiw, and a doctor of musical arts degree from UC Santa Barbara, where she worked with Anne Epperson.
In the summer of 2003, Ms. McDonald received a fellowship to study at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center, where she worked closely with Dawn Upshaw and Osvaldo Golijov. The following year she was invited to the Meadowmount School for Strings in New York as a staff accompanist. She has served as an official accompanist for the annual competition at the Music Teachers National Association Convention since 2005.
Ms. McDonald is an alumna of the Music Academy (2000 to 2002) and has been a member of the faculty since 2005.