Margaret (Maggie) Hinchliffe is currently a staff pianist at  Stephen F. Austin State University in both instrumental and vocal areas. Previously, as the pianist for Boulder Opera Company in Boulder, Colorado, she played for productions of Il Trovatore, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Bohème, and L’enfant et les sortilèges. Maggie has performed with vocal partners in the U.S., Austria, and Germany, including master classes for Julius Drake, Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, Libby Larsen, and Alan Smith. An advocate for new music and interdisciplinary art, Maggie has premiered operas, art songs, and other works with piano, commissioned composers and poets through her podcast How It’s Musically Made, and written poems for musical commissions. In 2021, she was awarded the Career Performance Grant from Sigma Alpha Iota and the Virginia Allison Collaborative Piano Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs. She has spent summers as a pianist and fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School, AIMS in Graz, Classic Lyric Arts Italy, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival,  Songfest, Source Song Festival, among others. Maggie received a Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music with Jean Barr and a Bachelor of Music from Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music with Amy Dorfman. Maggie is currently based in East Texas, where she enjoys running, hiking, reading, and traveling.