GARWOOD, Margaret

GARWOOD, Margaret American pianist, lecturer and composer. New Jersey, March 22, 1927. She received an M.A. from Philadelphia Music Academy after studying composition under Miriam Gideon (q.v.) and orchestration under Romeo Cascarion. She received a Whiteside Foundation grant from 1965 to 1968 and a National Endowment for the Arts grant from 1973 and 1977. She taught the piano at the Philadelphia Music Academy from 1953 to 1969 and at the Settlement Music School from 1960 to 1969. She was the…