Margaret vardell sandresky biography of barack obama
Oberlin alumni famous.
Organist, , is still composing new works
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norman lebrecht
September 11,
Margaret Vardell Sandresky is celebrating her th birthday year.
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She is the fourth generation female composer in her family and shes not planning to stop any time soon.
Just look at her CV:
She was born April 28, , in Macon, Georgia, and her family moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in when her father joined the faculty of the Salem College School of Music.
She graduated from Salem Academy in and Salem College in organ in
Sandresky earned a Master of Music degree in composition at the Eastman School of Music in , where she was a student of Harold Gleason, and studied composition with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers.
After teaching music theory at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Texas at Austin, Sandresky returned to Salem College where she taught until her retirement in As a founding member of the faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts, she established its org