Department of Music
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Margaret R. Evans, Professor of Music
Margaret R. Evans is Professor of Music and University Organist at Southern Oregon University, where she teaches organ, piano, and music history. She currently is national Vice President of the American Guild of Organists. She holds degrees from Chatham College, The University of Michigan, and the Eastman School of Music, as well as the Performer's Certificate in Organ from Eastman. Her organ teachers have included Russell Wichmann, Robert Glasgow, and Russell Saunders.
Dr. Evans has played many recitals throughout the United States including recitals for northwest and southwest regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Ninth International Summer Organ Festival in Balboa Park, San Diego. Her workshop presentation topics have included the organ music of Buxtehude, music for manuals, new organ music, conducting from the console, and choral literature. She was convention coordinator for the northwest regional convention of the American Guild of Organists held in Ashland and Medford in July 1997. She is the author of Sacred Cantatas, an annotated bibliography of choral works as well as author of various articles and reviews in The American Organist and The Diapason. In 2000 she presented three different all-Bach recitals on three organs in the Rogue Valley to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Bach's death.
In addition to her position at SOU, she is Music Director at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Medford where she conducts two choirs and plays three services every week and manages a concert series. For two years she served on the faculty for the Leadership Program for Musicians in the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon.
Her memberships include the American Guild of Organists, the Association of Anglican Musicians, the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, and the American Choral Directors Association.
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