Description
Margaret Lucia returns to San Diego this year after having enjoyed an extensive career on the East Coast as a pianist, university professor, and piano teacher of students of all ages. Her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees are from Indiana University, Bloomington, but she began her career here, teaching piano privately while completing a Ph.D. in contemporary performance at the University of California, San Diego and studying with Aube Tzerko in Los Angeles (UCLA). She was the pianist in chamber music seminars with violinist Rafael Druian, keyboardist with the San Diego Symphony and a frequent collaborator in chamber music with symphony musicians and SONOR, UCSD’s contemporary music ensemble. She taught at Redlands College, then left to teach at Grinnell College in Iowa and Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, where she recently retired as a full professor.
During this time she also performed in festivals, recitals and lecture-recitals in Europe and Japan as well as throughout the United States and Canada. She performed several concertos with orchestra, and was a featured soloist at the Festival de Música Contemporánea in Havana, Cuba in 2011. In 2017, as a Fulbright scholar, and in 2019, she traveled to Spain where she collaborated with women composers and performed their music on tour. While there, she also studied the teaching methods at the extensive conservatory system in Madrid and other cities.
Throughout all this time, she has continued teaching and focusing on the art of piano—at her home studio as well as in the university. She has always enjoyed the uniqueness of each person’s experience at the piano, teaching beginners as well as intermediate and more accomplished players—and is looking forward to teaching these students at Villa Musica.
