Biography

GRAMMY®-nominated soprano Margaret Carpenter Haigh captivates audiences with her “flawless intonation” and “perfect vocalism” in “superbly sung” performances. Treasured performances include the American premiere of Huang Ruo’s Book of Mountains & Seas; David Del Tredici’s virtuosic An Alice Symphony with Portland Symphony; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the choirs of Trinity Wall Street and Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue; Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres in the Easter at King’s Concert Series in King’s College Chapel (Cambridge); and a highly publicized and ground-breaking soprano interpretation of the Evangelista role in Bach’s St. John Passion at the 2024 Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival. Recent solo recording credits include Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Apollo’s Fire and Desmarest’s Circé with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Margaret is a grateful recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship and holds the M.Mus from the University of Cambridge and the D.M.A. in Historical Performance from Case Western Reserve University, where her dissertation "Ut pictura musica: Visual Art as a Basis for Physical Gesture in the Madrigal Repertory of the Ferrarese Concerto delle Donne" was supervised by Susan McClary. She has lectured widely, including at University of Iowa, Harvard University, Peabody Institute, and Indiana University, and has served on the faculties of the Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain and Vocal Fellows Program at Bach Akademie Charlotte. Margaret is a member of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street.

Previous Education

Keele University
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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