Margaret Berg

Associate Professor of Music Education

Music Education, University of Colorado at Boulder

BIOGRAPHY

Margaret Haefner Berg, Associate Professor of Instrumental/String Music Education and Chair of Music Education, received her BS in music education 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 where she also conducted the East Central String Sinfonietta and was a member of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra. She has also taught at DePaul University and in the Cincinnati Public Schools. Dr.Berg is an active orchestra festival conductor and state and national conference clinician as well as former President of Colorado ASTA w/NSOA (American String Teachers Association with National School Orchestra Association). 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 Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Music Education Research, Psychology of Music, 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 (volume 1, 2 and 3) and Applying Research to Teaching and Playing Stringed Instruments and the recently published Advances in Music Education Research. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Journal of String Research and American String Teacher.