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 directed the undergraduate collaborative curriculum.
Ms. McDonald enjoys a very active performing career regionally and nationally as a recital partner with many distinguished artists. She received bachelor's and master's degrees in piano performance from the University of Minnesota, where she was a student of Lydia Artymiw. She is completing her doctor of musical arts degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has worked with Anne Epperson.
Ms. McDonald received a fellowship to study at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center in the summer of 2003. 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 National Convention since 2005.
Ms. McDonald is an alumna of the Music Academy (2000-2002) and has been a member of the faculty since 2005.