Margaret Berg

Associate Professor of Music Education

Email: margaret.berg@colorado.edu
Office Location: Room N159, Imig Music Building
Office Phone: 303-735-5301
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301

Margaret Haefner Berg, Associate Professor of Music Education, received her BS from Case Western Reserve University, BM in Violin from the Cleveland Institute of Music, MEd from the University of Cincinnati, and PhD from Northwestern University. Previously she was on the faculty at Ball State University, served as conductor of the East Central String Sinfonietta, and was a member of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra. She has taught at DePaul University and in the Cincinnati Public Schools. Dr. Berg is an active orchestra festival conductor and state and national conference clinician. Her research interests include the social psychology of music education, string/orchestra pedagogy and curriculum development, and teacher education. Dr. Berg has published articles in the Council for Research in Music Education, Music Education Research, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Music Educators Journal, and American String Teacher as well as contributed to various books, including Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra and Applying Research to Teaching and Playing Stringed Instruments. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of String Research and is President of Colorado ASTA w/NSOA (American String Teachers Association with National School Orchestra Association).