Faculty
Margaret Nichols Baldridge
Margaret Nichols Baldridge, Associate Professor of violin and viola at the University of Montana is an active teacher, soloist, orchestral and chamber musician. She is the violinist in the Montana Piano Trio and the Sapphire Trio. With both groups she has performed across the United States, and in Europe and Asia. With the Sapphire Trio she is also a frequent presenter at National and International festivals and conferences. Dr. Baldridge is the Concertmaster of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra. She is also a concertmaster of the String Orchestra of the Rockies, a conductor-less thirteen member orchestra, the only one of it's kind in the Northwest.
During the summers she is on the faculty of the internationally acclaimed Brevard Music Center in Brevard, North Carolina. Previously she has performed in chamber ensembles and orchestras at the Heidelberg Opera Festival, Heidelberg, Germany, the Des Moines Metro Opera Festival in Iowa, and the Flathead Festival in Whitefish, Montana. She can be heard in solo performances with the String Orchestra of the Rockies on their CD Beneath A Northern Sky, distributed by Earth Passage records, and with the Eastman Philharmonia and James Galway on a CBS Red Label recording.
Professor Baldridge holds a Bachelor of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York where she studied violin with Gerardo Ribiero, Charles Castleman, and Catherine Tait, and chamber music with Abram Loft, John Graham, and Jean Barr. She also holds a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she studied violin with Gerardo Ribiero, and chamber music with Myron Kartman and Debra Sobol.
Contact Dr. Baldridge: margaret.baldridge@umontana.edu