Margaret (Maggie) Hinchliffe is a pianist, vocal coach, and educator with interests in collaboration and creating unique experiences through classical music. As of fall 2026, Maggie joins the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory as a collaborative pianist in the Vocal Studies Area, the UMKC Conservatory Academy as a piano teacher, and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City as a pianist for their touring education productions in the 2026-2027 season. Maggie was on faculty for four years at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) in Nacogdoches, Texas as a collaborative pianist for instrumental and voice areas, and she was previously a vocal and choir accompanist at University of Colorado Boulder. Maggie has worked on opera productions including Hänsel und Gretel, The Rake’s Progress, The Bartered Bride, Die Fledermaus, Il Trovatore, Le Nozze di Figaro, Orfeo ed Euridice, La Bohème, and L’enfant et les sortilèges with Boulder Opera Company, Lakes Area Music Festival, Music on Site, Inc, SFA Opera, and Eastman Opera Theater.
Maggie is an advocate for new music, especially works that engage with poetry and local causes. She has premiered and commissioned new works by poets Marissa Davis, Bri Griffith, karla k. morton, Mark Sanders, and S. Yarberry, and composers Martin Blessinger, Alexa Canales, Theo Chandler, Gala Flagello, Baldwin Giang, Clare Glackin, Nevada Lozano, Ben Morris, Alex Molina Shawver and Nicky Sohn. Her recent recital projects include “Cowboy Songs” for the classical stage with soprano Leah Hollingshead, programs of new works for flute and piano and works by women composers with flutist Michael Alampi, and “No More Walks in the Wood,” an interdisciplinary collaboration of music about trees and nature in Texas with soprano Rose Kearin. Maggie has received grants for these projects from the Puffin Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, Stagetime, the Composers Guild of New Jersey, and the Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation and Research.
In addition to performing, Maggie writes prose and poetry on musical topics from collaborative piano advocacy to musicology research which have been published by Sparks & Wiry Cries, the International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society, Sigma Alpha Iota, and more. Her article, "Trees and the Anthropocene in Art Song," was published in the Art Song Magazine, and she has given lectures and performances at CollabFest, University of Arkansas Fort Smith, University of Minnesota Morris, Source Song Festival, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and Stephen F. Austin State University. Maggie’s work as a collaborator has earned her the Career Performance Grant from Sigma Alpha Iota, the Virginia Allison Collaborative Piano Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Grant Achievement Award from Stephen F. Austin State University and 2nd place at the 2025 Central Texas SongSLAM competition along with her team, Ben Morris and Rose Kearin.
Maggie received her MM in collaborative piano from the Eastman School of Music and BM in solo piano and pedagogy from Vanderbilt University. Outside of music, Maggie enjoys reading, traveling, and exploring the outdoors with her husband, composer Ben Morris.
