Margaret (Maggie) Hinchliffe is a pianist, vocal coach, and educator. She is currently a staff collaborative pianist at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas in vocal and instrumental areas. As an opera pianist, Maggie has prepared The Rake’s Progress with Lakes Area Music Festival, The Bartered Bride with SFA Opera, Il Trovatore, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Bohème, and L’enfant et les sortilèges with Boulder Opera Company, and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Eastman Opera Theater. Maggie is an advocate for new music, especially in the genre of classical art song. She has received grants from the Puffin Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, Stagetime, the Composers Guild of New Jersey, and the Paul R. Judy Center at Eastman to commission works by poets Marissa Davis, Bri Griffith, karla k. morton, Mark Sanders, and S. Yarberry and composers Martin Blessinger, Alexa Canales, Theo Chandler, Baldwin Giang, Clare Glackin, Nevada Lozano, Ben Morris, and Nicky Sohn. Maggie was awarded the Career Performance Grant from Sigma Alpha Iota and the Virginia Allison Collaborative Piano Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs. She has performed with partners across the U.S. including a tour of “Works by Women for Flute and Piano” with flutist Michael Alampi. Maggie studied collaborative piano at the Eastman School of Music and solo piano and pedagogy at Vanderbilt University. In addition to performing, Maggie teaches a private piano studio and enjoys writing poetry, reading, and exploring the outdoors with her partner, composer Ben Morris.