Maggie Burk

Margaret (Maggie) Burk is a conductor, 作曲家, and vocalist committed to the transformative power of choral music. She is the Director of Choral Activities at Carthage College in 出赛, Wis., where she oversees the choral area, conducts the Carthage Choir, Lincoln Chamber Singers, and the Carthage Chorale (Vox Ignis), and teaches coursework in conducting and education. In demand nationally as a clinician, she has led All-State and District honor choruses as well as church music festivals in Illinois, 维吉尼亚州, 华盛顿, D.C., Delaware, North Carolina, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Maggie holds the Doctor of 音乐al 艺术 degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Eugene Rogers. 

While at Michigan, Maggie directed the 艺术 Chorale and the University Choir; she also served as Assistant Director of the Men’s Glee Club (becoming the first woman in the Club’s 162-year history to hold this title). In addition to her choral work, she led a music workshop titled “Sounds from Within” in conjunction with the Prison Creative 艺术 Project, where she taught singing, music literacy, and songwriting to incarcerated men. She earned her MM in Choral Conducting from the Yale School of 音乐/Institute of Sacred 音乐, where she received the Robert Shaw Prize for choral conducting and the ISM’s 教师 Prize for outstanding academic achievement and community leadership. She holds the Bachelor of 音乐 degree summa cum laude from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.

In addition to her academic pursuits, Maggie is an active church musician, professional chorister, and 作曲家. She has served on the faculties of the Conference for 音乐 and Worship at Montreat (North Carolina), the Royal School of 音乐’s King’s College Course (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), RSCM’s Midwest Choral Festival (Evansville, Ind.) and the Saint Cecilia Choral Series (Lewes, Del.).

As a 作曲家, Maggie’s works are published by Oxford University Press, Hal Leonard, and Selah 音乐 Publishing and have been heard on BBC Radio 3, at national ACDA conventions, and at churches/universities throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. Recent commissions include “This Holy Hour,” a 25-minute work for harp and SATB choir for Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, OR, and “Recuerdo,” composed for Oxford University Press’s new collection 音乐 for Choir and Cello.

An accomplished choral soprano equally at home in the worlds of early and new music, she sings with professional choirs around the United States, including Audivi (Detroit, MI), 音乐a Atlantica (Savannah, GA), and the Yale Choral Artists (纽黑文, CT). A fierce advocate for music education in public schools, Maggie taught middle and high school choral music in Minnesota and Kansas before her graduate studies. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, 运行, 参考, 徒步旅行, and spending time with her two rescue cats (Leo and Wilma).

• Bachelor of 音乐 degree summa cum laude — St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.
• Master of 音乐 in Choral Conducting — Yale School of 音乐/Institute of Sacred 音乐, 纽黑文, 康涅狄格州.
• Doctor of 音乐al 艺术 — University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

• Carthage Choir
• Lincoln Chamber Singers
• Carthage Chorale
• Choral Conducting
• Choral Literature

• Oxford University Press, Carols for Choirs 6
• Oxford University Press, 音乐 for Choir and Cello