Margaret Brandman on Life Stories with Marty O'Connor {Australia}

Margaret Brandman is a multi-award-winning composer, performer, recording artist and music educator. She has received wide acclaim for her powerful compositions, characterized by an original tonality, melodic richness and engaging expression. Her albums Binna Burra Dreaming and La Vida Apasionada have achieved number one position on the Australian Aria Charts and she has twice received the Los Angeles Artemis Film Festival ‘Bella Composers’ award for Best Foreign Composition for her orchestral works. Margaret’s works range from orchestral works to solo instrumental pieces and songs, composed across a wide range of genres from contemporary classical through to Jazz and Latin-American. In tandem with her compositional output, Margaret has been teaching music for over 50 years and is well-regarded as a music educator and author/ publisher of a wide range of music education materials. Margaret’s life’s mission is to bring joy to her audiences through her music which receives world-wide airplay and is performed regularly in concert by both herself and a cohort of highly skilled performers. http://www.margaretbrandmanmusic.com.au