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Margo Schwartz-Newton is a freelance pianist and coach. After earning a degree in sociology, she pursued studies in piano performance at Roosevelt University and later earned a master’s degree in collaborative piano from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her mentors have been Anne Epperson, Anita Pontremoli, Russell Miller, and Ludmila Lazar.
Margo has had the opportunity to use her skills in a variety of fields. Aside from collaborating with instrumentalists and singers, she has worked with several sacred and secular choirs; accompanied operas such as Menotti’s The Medium, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Lyric Opera’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute starring the children of the South Shore Cultural Center, The Great Waltz with Light Opera Works, and the world premiere of Wendell Logan’s Doxology with the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble; and served as the keyboard player for the Chicago run of the musical Quilt. For three summers Margo participated in the Aspen Music Festival and School as a collaborative pianist and schedule coordinator and has spent a summer at the Interlochen Center for the Arts accompanying ballet and modern dance classes.
Margo participated in the inaugural year of the UCLA Vocal Arts Institute and Summer Songfest, an intensive program on Spanish and French art songs with Martin Katz. She has performed in the Newberry Festival of the Arts as well as in master classes for Warren Jones, Martin Katz, Dalton Baldwin, Richard Boldrey, Elly Ameling, and members of the Cleveland Orchestra, among many others. As a student, Margo received prizes and scholarships from the Chicago Musical Arts Club Piano Competition, the Chicago Musical College Scholarship Audition, a Farwell Award from the Musicians Club of Women, and was named a Presser Scholar by The Presser Foundation.
Formerly in arts administration and currently on staff at the IIT Institute of Design, Margo collaborates mostly with singers and string players. Currently, she is the pianist for Kol Zimrah, The Jewish Community Singers, under the baton of Richard Boldrey. When she has free time, it is spent reading, cooking, and making pottery.
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