Today we are talking with Composer, Producer, Cellist, and Teaching Artist, Margaret Maria, about music’s power to change the world for the better. She shares her passion for creating music and giving back to the community by walking us through her not-for-profit organization "OrKidstra" as well as her creative projects.

• Love at first sight with the cello
• Learning to be fearless at Curtis Institute
• Playing professionally. What comes next?
• OrKidstra – not for profit serving kids in underserved areas
• The internal drive to create and giving back to the community
• Passion over Precision
• Two goals of OrKidstra: create musicianship and social development
• Academy of Impact through Music’s five pillars of creating social change through music
• Finding a place where music and belonging are the same
• Changing the social structure so children learn their voices matter
• Genre-fluid collaboration: “Music Can Change the World”
• Finding a place for new music

https://margaretmariamusic.com/home
https://orkidstra.ca/
https://www.aimpowers.com/
https://musictreson.com/
https://marbyllia-bg.bandcamp.com/album/uncountable-spheres
https://www.apmmusic.com/albums/HARD-0061
https://www.craigrobertmcconnell.com/