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Margaret Leenhouts

Margaret Leenhouts
Margaret Leenhouts

Instrument: Violin

With the RPO since: 1994

Hometown: Flagstaff, AZ
 
Non-RPO activities and hobbies: Puzzles, Reading, Hiking, Swimming, Lifting weights, Movies (so much life, so little time)
 
What music school did you attend? Interlochen Arts Academy, Juilliard, Yale, Eastman

Favorite books/movies: Jane Eyre in both categories
 
What kinds of music do you enjoy listening to? I clear my ears with news on 1370 WXXI
 
And if you had to pick just one, what's your favorite piece? Brahms First Viola Quintet
 
People would be surprised to know ... I can recite entire Sponge Bob episodes verbatim
 
What sports team(s) do you root for? The National Spelling Bee?
 
What is your favorite way to spend your day off? What's a day off?

 

Biography

Margaret Leenhouts earned her bachelor’s degree at Yale University and completed a doctorate in violin performance and literature at the Eastman School of Music. Additional musical studies include Mannes College of Music and The Juilliard School. With the RPO since 1994, she has also performed with the New Haven, Grand Rapids and Honolulu Symphony Orchestras. She is also an avid chamber musician and has performed with the Eos and Evergreen String Quartets and the Sedona (Ariz.) Chamber Music Society. She is on the violin faculty of the Eastman School of Music.

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