Margaret Boswell

Biography

Margaret Boswell is a pedagogue, pianist, and composer based in the Boston area. As a

passionate educator, she is the co-founder of Attacca School of Music in Belmont, MA where

she acts as both Administrative Director and Piano Department Chair. She teachers piano,

coaches chamber music, and accompanies for students of all ages.

Her strong affinity for piano and teaching stems from her love of exploring the pedagogy of the piano and building lasting relationships with her students to help them pursue music in a holistic and gratifying way.

As a composer, she gravitates towards writing in a way that shows respect for structure and

form and showcasing harmonic language that provides a connected experience for the listener and is idiomatic and enjoyable for the performer.

Her Trio on a Ukrainian Folk Song - written in 2022 as an homage to those affected by the war in Ukraine - has been played around the world at numerous fundraising concerts and music festivals. Her most recent composition, Meditation for Violin and Piano was internationally debuted in Cremona, Italy in July 2024. Her other works have been performed by Sybarite 5, the Amernet String Quartet, Duo con Fuoco, the Horzsowksi Trio, Ensemble Uncaged, and the Longy Conservatory Orchestra. As well as concert music, Margaret’s past portfolio has included the soundtrack for short film titled ‘Chasing Kites,’ and as a singer/songwriter, she has been heard live on NPR affiliate WTMD’s The Baltimore Hit Parade radio show and co-wrote an EP with her Atlanta based band Halter Kids. Margaret holds a BM in Composition and Keyboard Studies from Samford University, an MM in Composition from the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and a Graduate Performance Diploma in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the Longy School of Music. Her studies

have included compositional instruction with Joel Davis, Mark Lackey, John Morrison, and Paul Brust, and piano instruction under Kathryn Fouse, and Esther Ning Yau.