About Margaret Griebling-Haigh
Margaret Griebling-Haigh began her training in composition and music
theory in early childhood with her parents, Mary Ann and Stephen T.
Griebling. She studied piano with Margaret Baxtresser and oboe with
Harvey McGuire and John Mack of the Cleveland Orchestra. She was
principal oboist of the Akron Youth Symphony from 1976-8 under Music
Director Paul Biss, and won concerto competitions with both the Akron
Youth Symphony and the University Circle Youth Orchestra. She earned
a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music with
Robert Sprenkle and a Masters degree from the San Francisco Conservatory with Marc Lifschey. Before graduating from high school,
she had already won many awards in composition, including a grant
from BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) in 1975, and First Prize in the
National Federation of Music Clubs' Competition for New Orchestral
Works in 1978. She has received commissions from the Huntingdon Trio
of Philadelph nectady Symphony, the Cleveland Foundation, and
the Akron Youth Symphony. Ms. Griebling-Haigh has spent some portion
of nearly every summer since 1985 at the Pierre Monteux Memorial
School in Maine, studying orchestral repertoire and composing. Her
catalogue includes numerous songs and chamber music compositions,
piano solo pieces, orchestral works, and a new version of Histoire de
Babar, le petit éléphant, for oboe, English horn, double bass,
piano, and narrator. She has performed as either principal oboist or
English hornist with symphonies throughout New York State, Erie,
Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio. She is currently serving as
Chairman of the Cleveland Composers' Guild, and served as Secretary from 1991 to 1995. She resides in Cleveland
Heights with her husband, Scott, First Assistant Principal Bassist
with the Cleveland Orchestra, and their daughter, Gabrielle.
email in care of: sxh61@po.cwru.edu
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